I didn't get a reply yet and we need to make a decision. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 9:51 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bi...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 8:07 PM Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Package: session-migration > > > Description: Tool to migrate in user session settings > > > This tool is used to migrate in session user data when a program is > > > evolving > > > its configuration, or needing to have files moved and so on. > > > . > > > This program is generally autostarted at the very beginning of the > > > session > > > and integrates caching capability. > > > > This looks like an extremely generic name for such tool and package, > > when it appears to be restricted to gsettings session data only? > > It is not restricted to gsettings although gsettings is a good use case for > it. > > Here's an example where it's used for something else: > https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-boxes/-/commit/b536a968eb192 > > It would be nice if the upstream developers would handle user session > migrations tasks themselves, but they often don't. > > > > Package: dh-migrations > > > Provides: dh-sequence-migrations > > > Description: debhelper extension for session-migration support > > > This package provides a debhelper extension to perform session migration > > > operations on the installed packages. > > > > This also seems extremely generic. Migrations could refer to anything, > > from databases, to any other data source. Something like > > dh-gsettings-migrations seems like would be way better? > > Despite being around for a decade, it looks like it's only used by > about 6 current Ubuntu source packages so a rename is doable if > needed. I think I wouldn't even need a transitional package since we'd > rebuild all those Ubuntu packages which would get them the properly > named dependency. > > Here's a suggestion: > user-session-migration > dh-migrate-user-session Providing dh-sequence-migrate-user-session