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

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> [2010-06-18 10:26:58 CEST]:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:58:00AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> >  There will be a meta package, as outlined in my blog post:
> > <http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/2010/06/09>
> 
> I'm lacking an explanation what might make Wesnoth so special compared
> to other games that Debian (aka Release team and Security team) need to
> support two different versions.

 I'm lacking the information that you are part of either team or are
needed to specifically be made aware of the communication with those
teams.

 Let me cite again from the blog entry, maybe you missed that paragraph:

"People asked for a way to be able to install different branches
side-by-side so that they can keep the old stable branch around for
finishing started campaigns there while still being able to play with
their friends multiplayer games using the new stable branch. Also people
using the development version wanted to not having to get rid of the
stable version just to use the development branch."

> IMHO this is unneeded work and over-engineering.

 IMNSHO you are not the package maintainer and neither involved in the
upstream development or the bug management of the package, might it be
in the wesnoth forums, the Debian BTS or Ubuntu lanuchpad. Also you
aren't the one doing the work so I'm not sure what makes you competent
to judge the benefits in respect to the needed work for it.

> Having a metapackage which picks the recent stable upstream version
> might be OK.  I do not think that we should actually release two
> different versions in stable Debian.

 I do not think that I anywhere mentioned that it is actually planed to
release two different versions in stable Debian. We didn't and we don't
plan to.

 Thanks,
Rhonda
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