[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Can aolserver4 be considered superseded and removed?

[Héctor Romojaro Gómez]

El jue, 19-07-2018 a las 13:52 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine escribió:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 01:07:24PM +0200, Héctor Romojaro Gómez
> wrote:
> > > We have naviserver in NEW [0] (for four months but okay). I don't
> > > see
> > > any reference to the aolserver4 package. I was expecting
> > > something
> > > like
> > > Provides:/Replaces:/Package: for a transitional package to move
> > > all
> > > users from aolserver4 over to naviserver.
> > 
> > I will add a "Replaces" to the naviserver package once it hits sid
> > and
> > i am able to upload a newer version.
> > 
> > > I am currious now if I am allowed to reassing [2] over to
> > > ftp.debian.org
> > > for the removal.
> > 
> > Fine for me, let's wait for Frankie's opinion.
> > 
> > > There is also ITP for naviserver-modules [1] so I could then file
> > > a
> > > RM
> > > for aolserver4-nsopenssl which I what I planned in the beginning.
> > > Any objections?
> > 
> > nsopenssl is replaced by naviserver itself, as it includes now the
> > nsssl module, so there is no need to wait for the modules package
> > :)
> > 
> 
> I would propose a replace roadmap for people using aolserver4 (in
> both testing 
> and stable) with usual replaces/provides/conflicts items, and add a
> *big* warn 
> in NEWS about known changes and incompatibilities.

There is a full upstream NEWS file including those:
https://salsa.debian.org/tcltk-team/naviserver/blob/master/NEWS

Not so easy to digest (~900 lines), but it is exhaustive. We could
include it in /usr/share/doc/naviserver/ and point the user to it in
the NEWS.Debian file.

Kind regards,
Héctor