[Debian-med-packaging] status of meme Debian packaging

[Faheem Mitha]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Faheem,
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:49:37PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:

>> I see there is already a package called glam2 in Debian. What is the
>> relationship between this, and the glam2 derived from meme?
>
> You are correct that there is a glam2 package.  I was told (and never
> checked myself!) that the glam code is not maintained separately any
> more but inside the meme source tree.  That is actually the reason to
> split up the glam binary into a separate binary package to provide a
> reasonable upgrade path for glam users.

Yes, I looked at the glam2 web page, and it says it is now part of MEME. 
So I guess the Debian glam2 package should be depreciated in favor of the 
MEME package. However, the version numbers would not make an upgrade 
automatic, since 4.9.0-1 < 1064-1.

                                                           Regards, Faheem