On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 8:44 PM Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 8:30 PM Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> wrote: > > The source package name `dhcpcd5` does not reflect the reality any more. > > Debian stable ships version 7 and testing/unstable version 9, but the > > source package name indicates that is the version 5. > > > > Please rename the source package from `dhcpcd5` back to `dhcpcd` and > > probably also the binary package. > > I fully agree. I've been meaning to do that at the same time as I > upload 9.4.2, pending upstream release. Now that upstream has informed > me that the next release is unlikely to happen until some time next > month (too close to the freeze), I might do it during the Christmas > vacations instead.
I just uploaded a package that handles the binary transition to Mentors. Sponsors are welcome. Beyond that, renaming the src package will be a tad more involved, since Git repositories on Salsa and on my development host need to be migrated to the new namespace, and the content of d/control and d/copyright upgraded to match. Martin-Éric
