On 15:49 Sat 08 Dec     , Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to make gnupg-2 stable.
> 
> The problem is that gnupg-1.9 was slotted as slot "1.9" and made stable.
> 
> So now we have two slots, slot "0" and slot "1.9".
> 
> gnupg-2 is drop-in replacement of gnupg-1, so eventually no slotting
> should be used.
> 
> As far as I see, there are two migration pathes I can use:
> 
> 1. Mark gnupg-2 stable, as it blocks older versions, this results in
> forcing users to manually unmerge the gnugp-1.9 series, this is the
> quickest and simplest migration path.

Seems reasonable. Any particular reason to slot gnupg-2 as SLOT 0 rather 
than SLOT 1.9?

> 2. Perform slot-move of slot "0" and slot "1.9" into slot "2", so
> migration will be smooth. The problem is that I need all archs to work
> with me in timely manner so that this will be possible. I have
> bug#194113 waiting for arm, mips, s390, sh, and this only for the
> dependencies.

I can imagine this resulting in very weird issues, when you have two of 
the same package installed in the same slot.

Thanks,
Donnie
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