Rogério Brito writes ("Re: Bug#749355: moreutils vs parallel"):
> I am the maintainer of parallel and after I upgraded youtube-dl, I was
> just going to update parallel. OTOH, If you wish to NMU it, I'm fine
> with it too.
Hi.
> > I suggest that for now, we drop the Conflicts from parallel and rely
> > on the diversion.
>
> OK, just to reiterate and see if I got what you are trying to
> communicate, you think that a sane idea would be to keep the diversion
> and simply remove the declaration that the packages conflict?
Exactly.
> > The parallel package looks like the maintainer could do with some
> > help, looking at the package tracker.
>
> I can take a look and ship something quick'n'dirty, but something
> better would probably miss the deadlines posed by the release team,
> since I'm slightly short of time this week. The security bug should,
> definitely, be fixed, of course.
Oh, yes.
> My preferred idea would still be to split parallel from moreutils as,
> say, tollef-parallel, have it, then, use the alternatives solution
> with GNU parallel and let life go on.
I don't think splitting moreutils's parallel out of moreutils.deb is
useful. To use alternatives, I think what would be needed is:
1. GNU parallel should change to install /usr/bin/parallel.gnu
and use alternatives to create /usr/bin/parallel.
2. moreutils should start to install /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils[1],
should divert /usr/bin/parallel, and use alternatives to create
/usr/bin/parallel. I think this would be compatible with all
old versions of the GNU parallel.deb.
I haven't tested this. But I think these changes can be made
separately.
To do this properly would involve preparing at least a new version of
each package, and testing at least all the combinations
{jessie, old, new} moreutils x {jessie, old, new} parallel
(where `old' is what is currently in stretch and `new' is the
proposed update).
[1] We should ask Tollef whether he would prefer moreutils to install
parallel.moreutils, or parallel.tollef, or something else.
> In summary, I hope to update the parallel package up to this weekend.
Great.
> If you want to act faster, please, go ahead and NMU it.
TBH I'm not likely to get round to that. I will leave it to you
unless you get distracted ...
> The only thing that I ask from anybody is to put verbose messages on
> the git commits.
Heh. (PS pls use dgit push)
Regards,
Ian.
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