[Pkg-openldap-devel] Source package name

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:21:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > So I've not bothered with changing the source package name yet, even
> > though the name is obviously misleading with the current version number.
> > I figured once we had a version of 2.4 that had reached testing we could
> > rename the source to openldap2 - not sooner, because taking back the
> > openldap2 package name means libldap2 suddenly becomes a "Not Built from
> > Source" binary.  If we name it "openldap" instead we could make that
> > change immediately, with the tradeoff that we lose all bug history from
> > *both* the openldap2 and openldap2.3 source packages...

> Won't a new openldap package automatically pick up all of the bugs that
> are assigned to the binary packages, so that it would only be the source
> bugs we'd have to reassign?  Or are you worried about more than just
> reassigning the open bugs?

Yes, the bugs assigned to binaries will be picked up fine, it's just the
ones assigned to the source that would need reassigning.  Even reassigning
bugs from source packages is problematic, because version tracking across
the name change boundary is broken; but that's not so major that I would
stand in the way of that rename if that's the consensus.

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