On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Charles Wilson on 2/23/2008 9:08 AM:
> | The mktemp package's setup.hint now specifies the "_obsolete" category.
> | The package directory has been moved from release/mktemp/ to
> | release/_obsolete/mktemp.
> |
> | What's to do?
> |
> | I thought about creating a new, empty package with an updated version
> | number -- but it's too late now.  Once somebody has updated to the new
> | coreutils, if they update using my new empty mktemp, then coreutils'
> | mktemp.exe will be deleted. That's no good.
>
> I can bump the version number of coreutils if you want to bump the version
> number of mktemp.  But I think we're okay leaving things as they are for
> now - no one has complained.

They won't complain until they try to uninstall mktemp and find their
coreutils incomplete...  That wouldn't be a very common situation (so no
rush), but it would be nice to do what you propose at some point.
        Igor
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