On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:29:18 +0100 Christian Kastner <c...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 Pirate Praveen wrote:>> Renaming the binary is > harder, because there are at least two > >> packages that use yarn from cmdtest during the build: gitano and > >> vmdb2. they would need to be ported, and that's up to their > >> maintainers and upstreams, who I assume won't be happy about it. > > > > Now only xauth and vmdb2 shows up as reverse build dependencies. I > > have asked their maintainers if they are open to the name change in > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977709 > Ryutaroh and I have been working with vmdb2 upstream on a new release > with support for more architectures. > > During this process, upstream indicated that vmdb2 will move away from > yarn (cmdtest) to Subplot (not yet packaged). > > A quick grep of the sources of xauth, the other reverse dependency of > cmdtest, gets no results for the string 'yarn'. So the conflicting > binary does not seem to be used there. > > So, strictly from the point of view of its reverse dependencies, holding > off on renaming the 'yarn' binary would probably not make much sense. > > Best, > Christian
Thanks Christian for your comment. Antonio, can we go ahead with the renaming now? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
