Comments regarding icestorm_0~20151006git103e6fd-1_i386.changes

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

Am 16/11/15 um 18:00 schrieb Ruben Undheim:
>> your package Recommends: arachne-pnr. Can you please tell me where I can find this?
> icestorm is a build-dependency for arachne-pnr, and the plan was therefore to upload
> arachne-pnr once/if icestorm is accepted into sid.
>
> It has been ready for upload for quite some time:
>  git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-science/packages/arachne-pnr.git
>
>
> We discovered (after the upload of icestorm) that there is another package that
> "Provides" icestorm (ice35-services), and Steffen wanted to see whether
> icestorm would get accepted at all because of this "naming" conflict, before
> uploading arachne-pnr.
>
> ice35-services has a long list of "Provides", one of them is "icestorm", but I
> cannot see it having any executables called "icestorm".
>
Thorsten is both a long-lasting contributor to Debian Med and since
quite some time already an FTP master (decision maker on what goes into
the archive), too. I have no exact idea how this thread emerged, but you
found the right person to consult, Ruben :)

Admittedly, I had already forgotten about icestorm. If there is a
package providing something and we allow a package of that name in that
is something completely different, then Debian would turn inconsistent.
Somewhere we apparently lost that email to the ftpmasters that informs
them about this name conflict, once we had become aware of it. Thinking
back, I possibly should have been more explicit and have suggested to
ask the ftpmasters to upfront reject the package to allow its
resubmission under a unique name. Hm. Right. I think this is what I
would do now :)

Best,

Steffen