Bug#1099044: passage name conflicts with new package from ITP #1098893

Tobias Frost tobi at debian.org
Sat Oct 4 17:21:16 BST 2025


On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 05:30:19PM +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote:
> Unless someone else from the Games Team objects to it, I’m going to
> prepare a new upload renaming the package and binary to "passage-game" a
> couple days from now.

Mmm.. I would not rename the source package to make way for the new
packages, this can create issues down the road if one is not
expericenced in Debian packaging quirks. (renaming src:passage also
breaks it's history in Debian tooling…) 
It would be much cleaner to have a new name for the new package,
both binary and source.

Looking at passage:
Would it be a possiblity to see if the support for age could be
implemented in pass, the project passage forked from? This seems to 
be the only difference, especially as upstream of passage doesn't look
quite active, last commit 1 year ago, and there are unanswered issues
and pull requests as well -- I fear it's development might have stalled
upstream, making the case for taking over the name "passage" weaker.

--
tobi



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