Bug#586291: wesnoth-1.8: Please rename to wesnoth and remove older versions

Gerfried Fuchs rhonda at deb.at
Fri Jun 18 07:58:00 UTC 2010


	Hi!

* Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> [2010-06-18 09:47:37 CEST]:
> I would regard it as highly confusing if the new version of a program is
> hidden behind a version number and I stick to the old version after an
> upgrade.  It took me some time to realise that we actually have wesnoth
> 1.8 in Debian (I admit I was not particularly interested).  Morover I
> really fail to see any reason why Debian should provide different
> versions of random games.  So I would strongly suggest to replace the
> wesnoth packages of version 1.6 by the packages which are now named
> wesnoth-1.8.

 There will be a meta package, as outlined in my blog post:
<http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/2010/06/09>

 Feel free to pick up the idea of sending in patches.

 Enjoy, help working towards it, or otherwise please be patient with me
until I find the time like outlined in the same blog posting.

 Thanks,
Rhonda
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