[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] cryptsetup_1.0.1-11_i386.changes REJECTED

[Joerg Jaspert]

On 10546 March 1977, Jonas Meurer wrote:

>> rejected, there is no need for a dummy package. The cryptsetup-luks
>> is nowhere in Debian, so no need for a transitional package here.
> still there was a widely used cryptsetup-luks package at the unofficial
> repository by Michael Gebethsroiter: http://einsteinmg.dyndns.org/debian

Than that repository should provide the way to upgrade.

> i believe that a save upgrade path even for this unofficial debian
> package is useful, but if you reject the upload for that reason, i've no
> other possibility than uploading 2:1.0.1-12 without the dummy
> cryptsetup-luks package.

> please tell us (the maintainer team), whether you will continue to
> reject uploads with a dumy cryptsetup-luks package.

Yes I will. If not all sorts of people and packages start to provide a
dummy because $random-repository-of-the-month had it. Thats not what
they are for.

-- 
bye Joerg
Endianess is the dispute on which end to open an egg at.
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