[Pkg-electronics-devel] verilog & covered on debian mentors

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:52:25AM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
>   I just realized that if a user has verilog installed, it won't be 
>   updated if we rename the package to iverilog, the solution would be 
>   adding a dummy transitional package called "verilog" that would depend 
>   on "iverilog", but then, what would be the point of renaming the 
>   package if we do this ?
> 
>   I hope to hear your opinions please.

We could remove the transitional package after the squeeze release. 

I don't think there is much benefit in renaming the package, but I don't
object to it either. The new name is less ambiguous but the
effort/transition is perhaps not worth the bother.

Hamish
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