[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: GNUstep library transition

[Hubert Chan]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:39:34 -0800, Steve Langasek said:

> Just for reference, can you explain what it is that prevents the
> library versions from being co-installable?  I would expect a
> mass-rebuild anyway, but it sends up warning flags for me to hear that
> partial upgrades won't work. :)

The main reason is that the new version has some symbolic links where it
used to be directories.  e.g. to pick a directory at random,
/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Images is now a symlink to
/usr/share/GNUstep/Images, instead of being a directory in the old
version.  These symlinks are "owned" by the gnustep-make package, and so
it will conflict with any packages that try to put stuff in the old
directory locations.

Actually, come to think of it, some of the libraries may be
co-installable if I tighten up the dependencies a bit.  (It seems like
the packages that try to put things in the moved directories aren't the
actual library packages -- just the "-common" packages.)  I'll take
another look at this.

[...]

>> The GNUstep-maintainer team's plan is to upload the new packages
>> (once they're recompiled) first into experimental.  Then, when we get
>> the green light from -release, we will upload to sid.

> If there are no conflicting transitions, is there any other reason to
> upload to experimental first instead of uploading directly to
> unstable?

No, if there are no conflicting transitions, there isn't much reason to
not go straight to unstable.  The only other reason I can think of would
be to give us some more testing of the migration before we hit unstable.

If the other GNUstep maintainers have any comments on this, feel free to
pipe in.

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