On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:15:12 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to get a wider audience involved in this...this just seems wrong > to do. There is a QA bug open about it as well: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198248 > > What are other people's feelings on using package moves to forcibly > migrate people like this? It also sounds like this wasn't announced > at all and the packages just left the tree. A package move via "update" file is simply an extension of a mv command. If you also had to edit the ebuild a package move is generally not the right thing to do. Remember that a package move applies to all versions of a package, and upstream name changes are generally tied to specific versions. Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
