[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] nginx 1.22.1-6

[Jan Mojzis]

> On 22. 1. 2023, at 16:10, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> 
> 
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> Le dim. 22 janv. 2023 à 13:29, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org <mailto:kapouer at melix.org>> a écrit :
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Le sam. 21 janv. 2023 à 08:40, Jan Mojzis <jan.mojzis at gmail.com <mailto:jan.mojzis at gmail.com>> a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> new version of nginx 1.22.1-6 is ready and will be upload  to the unstable soon.
> The main change in the package is the move of the nginx binary to the new nginx-bin package.
> And the nginx-{light,core,extras} packages are replaced by metapackages and marked as deprecated
> 
> 
> changelog:
> https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx/-/blob/master/debian/changelog <https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx/-/blob/master/debian/changelog>
> 
> Looks correct.
> It's a bit difficult to check if dependencies are correctly declared, so anyone feeling comfortable with that should check it out.
> 
> A remark:
> the long descriptions + NEWS are more than enough information about what is happening with the metapackages.
> I really don't think the postinst warnings are acceptable.

removed

> 
> Additional suggestions for the metapackages descriptions:
> -  shorten them, now we don't need to know that much ?
> - append "this metapackage can be safely removed"
> but those are not as important.
> 
> Is nginx-common needed now ? All its files could go to nginx-bin.

I agree nginx-common is not needed now.
But the question is if nginx-bin is a proper replacement for common files.
If it's not better to combine the binaries+configurations+init into the nginx package (back to standard setup).
But this will be even more complicated for testing due to historical dependencies.


> 
> Jérémy
> 

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