Bug#1030126: gnome-bluetooth-sendto should take over gnome-bluetooth with a transitional package

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Tue Jan 31 12:44:48 GMT 2023


Package: gnome-bluetooth-sendto
Version: 42.5-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: gnome-bluetooth at packages.debian.org

While upgrading an old GNOME system from bullseye to bookworm I noticed
that aptitude is reluctant to remove gnome-bluetooth in favour of
gnome-bluetooth-sendto. Both packages contain some version of the
gnome-bluetooth-sendto application.

apt full-upgrade managed to figure this out, but aptitude is sometimes
more conservative about removing packages. Both apt and aptitude use
heuristics to decide what to do, so I think we should make their job
easier whenever possible.

The version of gnome-bluetooth in bullseye already only contained
gnome-bluetooth-sendto, so I think we should make gnome-bluetooth-sendto
take over that package name:

- upload src:gnome-bluetooth3 adding a gnome-bluetooth (>= 42) transitional
  binary package before bookworm;
- upload src:gnome-bluetooth removing the gnome-bluetooth binary package
  before bookworm;
- remove the transitional gnome-bluetooth package in trixie;
- try to remove src:gnome-bluetooth completely in trixie

(Or if it's too late to do that for bookworm, then the same for trixie
and trixie+1.)

    smcv



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