[pkg-lynx-maint] git migration

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2015-02-13 Denis Briand <debian at denis-briand.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:35:44AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> I will also soon revert my removal of the transitional packages and
>> then just remove the lynx-cur-wrapper package for now.

>> We can then decide if we want to move the real contents back from
>> lynx-cur to lynx or keep it that way.

> Should we move lynx-cur package into a transitional package also?
> (I think yes) I would like also to come back to lynx name package
> for the real content, its most simple to find it for the `end user`.
> How many packages use 'lynx-cur' name as dependency?

Hello,

Some thoughts about moving the content to lynx:
- The argument about the end-user having difficulties finding and
  installing lynx seems weak to me. apt(-get) install lynx works
  perfectly fine. Imho the only strong argument for a transition is
  that the situation afterwards would be more aesthetically pleasing. 
- The thing is not completely trivial, since it involves moving of
  a dpkg conffile which requires some effort to avoid unnecessary dpkg
  conffile prompts. (Which would be an rc bug.)
- We would need to ship a lynx-cur metapackage up until and including
  Stretch.

So I /personally/ would not rename the package. Or to rephrase: The
small ugliness could not motivate *me* to invest the necessary amount
of work.  However I can understand that you are offended more strongly
by the current situation. ;-) If that is true I would suggest to go the
whole nine yards and also move to the lynx source package name.

cu Andreas
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