On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:36:21AM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > Package: supertux > > Version: 0.1.3-3 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > The supertux 0.3.x series has been in experimental for years now. Any > > reason not to upload it to unstable? > > No reason, aside from that's the state the package was in when I first > adopted supertux. > > If we were to change this, I'd be more inclined to go with Ubuntu's > approach here, i.e. package both and let users have the choice to > install one or both at the same time. In Ubuntu, they have > src:supertux which builds binary packages supertux and supertux-data > (from the 0.3.x branch), and src:supertux-stable which builds binary > packages supertux-stable and supertux-data-stable (from the 0.1.x > branch). No file conflicts are introduced (supertux 0.3.x installs > /usr/games/supertux2, whereas supertux 0.1.x installs > /usr/games/supertux).
What's the rationale for maintaining both branches, rather than just dropping the 0.1.x series completely? - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
