On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Matti Airas <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 29.10.2010 12:58, ext Luca Donaggio wrote:
>
>> Today the 0.4.2 version of PySide packages for Maemo5 are available in
>> the Extras-dev repo.
>> I noticed a package naming change: from pyside-qt4 to python-pyside,
>> pyside-qt4-core => python-pyside.qtcore, ecc. Why (I'm just curious)?
>> After upgrading, do I need to change all the Depends: and Build-Depends:
>> from my control files with the new package names?
>>
>
> Hi, Luca!
>
> Good that you noticed the new packages only now - we've had some rough time
> getting them in shape this week. ;-)
>
> The package naming scheme has changed because we now use Didier Raboud's
> debian packaging for Maemo as well (apparently with some modifications). The
> new packaging conforms to the Debian Python policy, which, I believe, should
> be followed on Maemo too.
>
> We haven't yet prepared instructions for the packagers but we've prepared
> transitional dummy packages so that existing applications should work as-is.
> The old package names should be considered deprecated, though, so any new
> application release should preferably be updated to refer to the new
> packages names. I hope this wouldn't be too much of an annoyance, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ma.
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Thanks for the clarification Matti, and for the hard work of all the devs
and packagers, of course!

-- 
Luca Donaggio
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