On 04/09/12 10:12, Emmet Hikory wrote:
Michael Terry wrote:
I imagine the easiest way to avoid this is to namespace the package
names too.
(Though with namespaced packages, the user can end up in a weird
situation if the Extras package "foo" does find its way into Debian
and Ubuntu quantal. Then, they really do want the "foo" package
from Debian but are left with the non-maintained "extras-foo" from
precise.)
One way to work around these cases would be to have a transitional
extras-foo in quantal-extras, which Depends: on foo, so that upgrading
users would migrate from extras-foo to foo during the upgrade process.
At some point the extras-foo package ought be removed from the system,
but this is true for all the historical transitional packages, and so
better handled as part of a general solution for that class of problem.
Good point. That's a way around the (likely not overwhelming) number of
Extras packages that make it into Debian if we namespace the packages.
So I'm even more certain that we should namespace the package names
themselves. Without doing so, we can't really guarantee that the
package won't switch completely out from under the user. We'd both be
removing an app they thought they had as well as installing a package
they didn't request (which could have quite bad side effects).
-mt
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