On Tue, September 27, 2005 6:18 am, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:19:36PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>There is no clear maintainer. I was asking if you'd be interested in >>>making this available via ncurses. >>> >>>If you release a new version of ncurses which contributes a 'clear', >>>I'll delete the clear package. >> >>I've got a new release of ncurses which contains /usr/bin/clear.exe >>ready to go (but not yet copied into /release). >> >>Go ahead an put an empty clear package up on sources (clear-1.0-2 ?) and >>we'll let that propagate, and then I'll move my new ncurses over to >>release/. > > I know that there was some talk of releasing an empty clear package but > I don't see how that would be useful. If I do that then we stand the > chance > of eliminating clear.exe when the clear package is "updated", meaning that > we could conceivably remove the clear.exe that ncurses installed. > > I think the only thing we can do is remove clear from the distribution. > > cgf
How about making the new (obsolete) clear package depend on ncurses? Would that force people to upgrade? J.
