[pkg-go] Bug#824628: Bug#824628: golang-metrics-dev and golang-github-rcrowley-go-metrics-dev: error when trying to install together

[Michael Stapelberg]

Sounds good, thanks for taking care of this.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Mpampis Kostas <charkost.rb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello and thanks Andreas for the bug report,
>
> golang-metrics-dev is outdated for 2.5 years and greatly deviates from the
> package naming convention defined by the pkg-go team in
> https://pkg-go.alioth.debian.org/packaging.html
> This naming deviation apparently causes this bug to reoccur.
>
> Instead of removing the up-to-date golang-github-rcrowley-go-metrics-dev
> packace which follows the right naming
> convention, me and my sponsor suggest the following actions:
>
> * Revise golang-github-rcrowley-go-metrics-dev using Conflicts:
> golang-metrics-dev & Replaces: golang-metrics-dev.
> * Open bug report to the 8 reverse dependencies of golang-metrics-dev and
> suggest to depend on golang-github-rcrowley-go-metrics-dev.
> * Request removal of golang-metrics-dev from the archive when it has zero
> reverse dependencies.
>
> We can proceed with the above actions if there are no objections or other
> suggestions.
>
> Mpampis
>
>
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Best regards,
Michael
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