On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Per Andersson escreveu isso aí: >> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Per Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > What about the transition from ruby-ncurses to ruby-ncursesw? Should >> > ruby-ncursesw just provide ruby-ncurses or should there be a also be >> > conflicts in there? From what I can tell ruby-ncursesw should provide >> > ruby-ncurses and conflict ruby-ncurses (if that is at all possible). >> >> As I understood from Policy 7.6.2 ruby-ncursesw should >> >> Provides: ruby-ncurses >> Conflicts: ruby-ncurses >> Replaces: ruby-ncurses >> >> I base this upon the fact that >> a) ruby-ncursesw should replace ruby-ncurses, and, >> b) ruby-ncursesw and ruby-ncurses both install >> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/ncurses.rb. > > You also want to move the transitional packages currently contained in > the ruby-ncurses source package to the new ruby-ncursesw source package, > and move the Replaces: and Provides: lines (agains the old lib*ruby* > packages) from ruby-ncurses to ruby-ncursesw.
Ok, as I understood the transitional packages can be dropped for wheezy. Do they need to be kept for wheezy also? > Actualy, what we could do instead is keep the existing ruby-ncurses > source package, and switch upstream to ncursesw. This way we avoid all > this moving around. That's what other language teams already do, i.e. > their 'ncurses' library is actualy 'ncursesw'. Sounds very reasonable. > What do you think? Sounds good. And have ruby-ncurses provide ruby-ncursesw? Do I have the teams green light for fixing the ruby-ncurses package? (Switching upstream, add 1.9 compat patch, more?) >> When we have reached a decision I can contact the tpp mantainer >> about the transition. > > A bug report about the issue with 1.9 would be nice. I'll submit one. -- Per > -- > Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CABYrXSSh0xuLJeQJSGks3GJOhhaL9rqXnZpRYeY=pe42e1d...@mail.gmail.com
