Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

[Adam D. Barratt]

Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM

Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second
one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is
removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still 
remains

in  oldstable.

Question: Can the second source package take the first source package's
(less awkward) name, or does it have to wait until oldstable is archived?


So far as I can tell, that should be fine.

dak requires that (source, version) tuples be unique, so the new source 
package would need to have a different (practically, higher) version than 
the old one; that's not a problem in this case.


Adam 



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Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:32, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
 Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM

  Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second
  one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is
  removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still
  remains
  in  oldstable.
 
  Question: Can the second source package take the first source package's
  (less awkward) name, or does it have to wait until oldstable is archived?

 So far as I can tell, that should be fine.

 dak requires that (source, version) tuples be unique, so the new source
 package would need to have a different (practically, higher) version than
 the old one; that's not a problem in this case.

No, but won't the PTS and the BTS get confused?

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Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

[The Fungi]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
 Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The
 second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies
 and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable,
 but still remains in oldstable.
[...]
 Concrete example: lsh/lsh-utils (see bug 340354).

Additional example: weather/weather-util.
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