On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:32:30PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > How would this look after we decided to get rid of the 2 suffix? > > As far as I see it we would do the following: > > First we should wait for the GNOME 2 stable release and for the woody > release before breaking sid (see the command -v bug) > > > 1) Upload > > > package - more stable, more tested, future GNOME 2 version > > Provides: package2 > > Conflicts: package2 > > Replaces: package2 > > Simply upload the package without the 2 and add a conflicts with the 2 > package. This solution is the more easy, but we lost all the GNOME 1.4 > packages. But wouldn't the packaging system just keep package2 installed and ignore the new versions of package then?
> > I am somewhat skeptical about the first upgrade path.
> > If somebody decides to try the GNOME-2 packages early,
> > what would happen to him after we drop the 2 suffix?
> > Does he need to manually switch back to "package"?
>
> The GNOME 2 packages are in experimental, then users knows what they are
> doing (I hope).
Yes, at the moment that packages are in experimental.
Do you suggest that we never upload packages with the 2 suffix
to unstable?
Still confused,
Jochen
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