On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:55:59AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sep 27 01:46, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:19:36PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >> > >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. >> >> Actually, it's the other way around. If the new (empty) clear package and >> the new ncurses are pushed to the mirrors together, the ownership of >> clear.exe goes to ncurses. Whenever both are installed, both will be >> upgraded, thus "moving" clear.exe to ncurses. > >I've uploaded new empty clear packages. I've not put the clear package >into the _obsolete category so far. Can I do this already?
Given that Chuck hasn't uploaded his version yet, and that we are still discussing this, I think it is premature to have an empty clear package up there so I've removed it. cgf
