On Dec 9, 2007 9:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 15:49 Sat 08 Dec     , Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to make gnupg-2 stable.
> >
> > The problem is that gnupg-1.9 was slotted as slot "1.9" and made stable.
> >
> > So now we have two slots, slot "0" and slot "1.9".
> >
> > gnupg-2 is drop-in replacement of gnupg-1, so eventually no slotting
> > should be used.
> >
> > As far as I see, there are two migration pathes I can use:
> >
> > 1. Mark gnupg-2 stable, as it blocks older versions, this results in
> > forcing users to manually unmerge the gnugp-1.9 series, this is the
> > quickest and simplest migration path.
>
> Seems reasonable. Any particular reason to slot gnupg-2 as SLOT 0 rather
> than SLOT 1.9?

he end result would be one slot... If I need to chose 1.9 or 0, I prefer the
standard is to have slot 0.

> > 2. Perform slot-move of slot "0" and slot "1.9" into slot "2", so
> > migration will be smooth. The problem is that I need all archs to work
> > with me in timely manner so that this will be possible. I have
> > bug#194113 waiting for arm, mips, s390, sh, and this only for the
> > dependencies.
>
> I can imagine this resulting in very weird issues, when you have two of
> the same package installed in the same slot.

What?
These are two versions....

If nobody else address this, I will chose the easy way -> option#0.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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