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Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace
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| Magnus Holmgren 2007-05-31, 7:22 am |
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| Adam D. Barratt 2007-05-31, 1:22 pm |
| Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM
> Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second
> one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is
> removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still
> remains
> in oldstable.
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> Question: Can the second source package take the first source package's
> (less awkward) name, or does it have to wait until oldstable is archived?
So far as I can tell, that should be fine.
dak requires that (source, version) tuples be unique, so the new source
package would need to have a different (practically, higher) version than
the old one; that's not a problem in this case.
Adam
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| Magnus Holmgren 2007-05-31, 7:25 pm |
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| The Fungi 2007-05-31, 7:25 pm |
| On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The
> second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies
> and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable,
> but still remains in oldstable.
[...]
> Concrete example: lsh/lsh-utils (see bug 340354).
Additional example: weather/weather-util.
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