[Pkg-openldap-devel] time to change the source package name?

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> I realized, after I'd finished uploading openldap2.3 2.4.10-1, that I
> completely botched the orig.tar.gz preparation by doing it by hand
> instead of using the get-orig-source target; so we have stray schema
> files in the tarball in the archive that should've been pruned.

We should probably make the check in debian/rules stronger to fail the
build when that happens.

> Since that means rolling a new tarball anyway, I wonder whether this
> wouldn't be an opportune time to change the source package name to
> 'openldap'?  There are only 7 open bugs remaining on the 'openldap2.3'
> source package (as opposed to the binary packages), which seems like a
> perfectly manageable number to have to munge by hand following the
> package name change; and that sidesteps having to create a bogus
> upstream version number to get a unique .orig.tar.gz file.

I'm wholeheartedly in favor.  I've wanted that renaming for a while.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>