2011/5/17 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:04, Dan S <danstowell+de...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2011/5/15 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: >>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 06:07, Dan S <danstowell+de...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> 2011/5/11 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: >>>>> Hi, sorry for taking so long. >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 15:57, Dan S <danstowell+de...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> 2011/4/16 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: >>>>>> >>>>>>> - I would really like to fold all the -dev packages into one. I don't >>>>>>> see much point in splitting them. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've discussed it with the upstream devs and we're OK with merging >>>>>> them, so I've done that. >>>>> >>>>> Good. However, the relationship with thte old packages is wrong. It >>>>> should Replace the older packages. >>>> >>>> Ah right, thanks. >>>> >>>>> However, I'm not quite sure if we >>>>> should apply policy 7.6.1 or 7.6.2 (ie, Replaces+Breaks or >>>>> Replaces+Conflicts+Provides). >>>>> >>>>> What do others think? >>>> >>>> In lieu of any other responses (so far), the latter >>>> (Replaces+Conflicts+Provides) seems to me to have the better >>>> semantics, although we're not talking about virtual packages (which >>>> policy 7.5 is pretty specific about). From reading the guide I can't >>>> decide either; unless anyone can advise, maybe we should go for >>>> Replaces+Breaks. >>> >>> Upon further reading, I think we should use >>> conflicts+replaces+provides, because we are replacing whole packages. >> >> OK, done. > > I probably won't be able to dedicate much time to this during this > week, so if anyone else can have a look at this package and comment on > it, I'd appreciate it. I'd like to have more eyeballs looking at it > since it is not a trivial package and I could have missed some things.
I'm very grateful for your help in polishing up this package (indeed, non-trivial). It would be great if others can comment - anyone? And if not, what are the next steps? Thanks Dan _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers