[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: new upstream GNUstep packages (yet another transition)

[Hubert Chan]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:42:40 -1200, Gürkan Sengün <gurkan-2Ut+nkrRcIBypLqBFPtG/w at public.gmane.org> said:

> hi
>> My packages:
>> - gnumail.app (this depends on what Joerg ends up doing
>> with pantomime1.2)

> i badly need a real mailer.

You can fetch the packages from my webpage in the meantime:

http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/gnustep/packages/pantomime1.2/
http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/gnustep/packages/gnumail/

(Although GNUMail seems a bit buggy -- though I'm not sure if most of it
is due to GNUMail or if the GNUstep libraries are buggy.  We'll see with
the new GNUstep libraries.)

>> Gürkan's packages (which AIUI are ready to be uploaded): -
>> meta-gnustep

> (package is ready too)

Good.  Thanks.  (And thanks for having the others ready too.)

>> - waiho.app

> (will be removed, when ftp.app is in, dead upstream)

Have you filed a bug against ftp.debian.org requesting waiho.app to be
removed yet?  If you don't, it won't get removed.

>> Old packages:
>> - gorm
>> - preferences
>> These packages are replaced by gorm.app and preferences.app,
>> respectively, and should be removed (Gürkan, since you're the
>> maintainer, I think it's best if you file the bugs against
>> ftp.debian.org), and gorm.app and preferences.app should provide
>> appropriate transition packages.

> i think they are fine. you've told me soemthing other to do, i don't
> remember. really that's needed, it's not enough like they are now?

I'm still seeing gorm and preferences in unstable.  Since you renamed
the source package, the old packages are not automatically removed.  So
you need to file a bug against ftp.debian.org (name the bug something
like "RM: gorm -- RoM, replaced by gorm.app") to get it manually
removed.

I think the other thing I had asked you to do was to provide transition
packages.  That is, the gorm.app source package should generate a gorm
binary package (architecture: all) that is mostly empty and just depends
on gorm.app, with a description that says that it's a transition (or
dummy) package.  (You can take a look at what I did for pdfkit.framework
as an example.) This is needed to make sure that if people are upgrading
from sarge, they'll get the new version of gorm.

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