toolame: remove from unstable, update in stable

Luk Claes luk at debian.org
Sun Mar 15 11:19:14 UTC 2009


Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> However, I think the toolame package in stable may stay both for the
> convenience of our users and because it's not *that* bad after all. I
> have prepared a  package targeted at Lenny that fixes two portability
> bugs and some minor lintian warnings. It can be found at mentors.d.n
> [1], the debdiff is attached to this mail. Please tell me if or under
> which restrictions it is OK to upload it to stable or s-p-u.

It's ok, please mention the portability bugs on [0] and upload.

> My general question regarding the removal of toolame is: Should we
> provide a transition and if yes... how? I consider the following methods
> to deal with this issue:

> 2. Provide an empty toolame package that depends on twolame.

Preferably in the twolame source package.

Cheers

Luk

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases/5.0.1



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