On 13/10/17 18:13, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Control: tags -1 pending > > Hello Emilio, > > Am 13.10.2017 um 17:17 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: >>> this is planned. >>> But as long we are not ready with the binary package migration we can >>> not do the source package name switching. >>> apt-listchanges compares the version related to the source package name, >>> if we do switching to src:thunderbird right now we have no chance to >>> send administrators a information about the changes by the new TB binary >>> packages. >> >> Can this happen now that stretch got released with renamed binary packages? > > we had some things within the package maintenance to sort out in the > past first. As I'm DD since a few weeks I'm now also able to upload new > source packages too. > The switch of the source package name was planned for 52.4.0 right after > the upload of 52.3.0-1 which I've prepared since some days for unstable. > I uploaded this prepared version two days ago to NEW but made a error > and didn't remove the epoch from the old version, so I've requested the > removal of this upload yesterday. Ansgar emailed me today with the > confirmation of my request.
Why are you removing the epoch? Don't you still need it? > The remove of the transitional packages is planned for the next > Thunderbird version 52.5.0. Are you removing the transitional packages now? Firefox hasn't dropped them yet. They are probably still needed for backports to previous releases, so it may be good to keep them around for a while longer (perhaps until buster is released). Cheers, Emilio
