On Mon, 16 Jun 2025, 07:43 Andrew Ruthven, <and...@etc.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-06-15 at 19:48 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:28:01 +1200 Andrew Ruthven <and...@etc.gen.nz> > > > request-tracker4 and extensions targetting RT4 won't be in trixie. They > > > are > > > replaced by request-tracker5. Can we please include words like the > below > > > in the > > > "Noteworthy obsolete packages" section: > > > > > > request-tracker4 has been removed from trixie. Its replacement is > > > request-tracker5. > > > > Is there a reason that request-tracker4 was not made a transiitional > > package depending on request-tracker5? > > (if the answer is that something is incompatible, we should say what > > and, ideally, link to how to migrate data etc) > > It isn't as simple as making a transitional package. If there are > customisations then they will need to be ported over. Upgrade instructions > are in the request-tracker5 package, and the description notes that it can > be installed simultaneously with request-tracker4. > But we could add > something like "Instructions on how to upgrade are in the request-tracker5 > package, which can be installed simultaneously." cool. i would read "simultaneously" as meaning that people should upgrade to trixie, but keep the release-tracker4 from bookworm installed, install r-t5, do the conversion and then remove r-t4, as opposed to doing the conversion in bookworm
