On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > xchat & hexchat are different packages. It's a bit like pretending that > the discontinuation and fork didn't ever happen, and the packages are > equivalent (which they are not, as have been already pointed out).
they're about as equivalent as you're going to get. a few plugins don't work, but not a big deal. the config file formats are also largely compatible. > IMO considering the fact that user needs to migrate his configuration > by hand, making the switch automagic is not helpful at all. yeah, i don't think so. that's like saying "since i have to turn the steering wheel anyways when driving a car, there's no point in power steering". > And after the rebuild user suffers the usual > upgrade pain of packages changing heavily between versions. which is irrelevant to the suggestion at hand > So, please do not hack the updates mechanism around to achieve minor > goals. It should be used to move packages which suffered a rename > or merge, not to provide replacements and suggestions. For those, > package.mask messages are much better. the inability to "make" users read the package.mask message explaining the situation is the only valid point in your e-mail. along those lines, a news entry is probably not even necessary. -mike
