[request-tracker-maintainers] release-notes: request-tracker4 has been dropped

[Andrew Ruthven]

On Sun, 2025-06-15 at 19:48 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:28:01 +1200 Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz>
> wrote:
> 
> > request-tracker4 and extensions targetting RT4 won't be in trixie. They
> > are
> > replaced by request-tracker5. Can we please include words like the below
> > in the
> > "Noteworthy obsolete packages" section:
> > 
> >     request-tracker4 has been removed from trixie. Its replacement is
> >     request-tracker5.
> 
> Is there a reason that request-tracker4 was not made a transiitional
> package depending on request-tracker5?
> (if the answer is that something is incompatible, we should say what
> and, ideally, link to how to migrate data etc)

It isn't as simple as making a transitional package. If there are
customisations then they will need to be ported over. Upgrade instructions
are in the request-tracker5 package, and the description notes that it can
be installed simultaneously with request-tracker4.

I have followed the format used previously in bookworm[0]. But we could add
something like "Instructions on how to upgrade are in the request-tracker5
package, which can be installed simultaneously."

Cheers,
Andrew


[0]
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#noteworthy-obsolete-packages
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