This one time, at band camp, Stephen Quinney wrote: >On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:59:05PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> This one time, at band camp, Pierre Machard wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am sending you this e-mail because Jamie Wilkinson was >> >interested by adopting request-tracker. It seems that Andrew >> >Stribblehill and Stephen Quinney are already maintaining a package nammed >> >request-tracker3. >> > >> > Could you confim that the package nammed request-tracker3 >> >include the lastest release of request-tracker? If Yes, what do you think >> >about asking for a remove of request-tracker? >> >> Matt Hope and myself are currently working on cleaning up the existing RT2 >> package, and are investigating ways to migrate between versions using the >> upstream migration scripts. > >Oh? I have also been doing a bit of work, looking into how to package >the upstream migration scripts. As there is the problem that RT2 and >RT3 conflict on a number of files, I wondered about creating an >rt2-to-rt3 package that contained the scripts and all the libraries it >needs (both rt2 and rt3) but in a completely separate directory, such >as /usr/share/rt2-to-rt3/. This means that someone could migrate with >either of rt2 or rt3 installed on the machine
I am currently investigating using the scripts as part of the postinstall; see a recent thread on debian-devel (or was it -mentors) between Matthew Palmer and Joey Hess regarding upgrades of database schemas in package upgrades, for some ideas on how it might work. I have nothing concrete yet. Anyway, I am currently looking at absorbing the old rt1 package that is also still around; providing a clean upgrade from rt1 to rt2 is a first step in unifying the packaging of this colourful and interesting software. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq