MBF: make fdisk non-essential

2019-12-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, I want make fdisk removable from an essential base system. The details are listed in #947134. Since fdisk currently is pseudo-essential, packages do not need to declare a dependency on it. When fdisk becomes non-essential, such dependencies become required. A lot of packages that use fdisk hav

Re: epoch bump request for protracker

2019-12-23 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 09:41:57AM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Upstream renaming is a very rare (and AFAIK *only*) chance for you to > actually get rid of epochs cleanly! I'd very much suggest you take this > chance! > > Basically what you do is rename everything and use the new version > n

Re: epoch bump request for protracker

2019-12-23 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Gürkan Myczko, On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:32:15AM +0100, Gürkan Myczko wrote: > Emailing only debian-devel, replies with cc to me please. > > protracker [1], version 2.b37-1 now release a non-beta version called 1.01. > Instead of permanently using 2.b37+really1.01, I'd go for > 1:1.01, and