On Thu, 17 May 2007, Ben Hutchings wrote: > After discussing with upstream, I'm complying with the trademark licence > conditions by "prominent version qualifiers and notices of possible > out-datedness" rather than renaming. Specifically, for a fresh > installation, the postinst checks the upstream version (using uscan) and > if the version being installed is out of date (or may be out of date, > since the version check failed) it notes that it will not be supported > upstream and requires acknowledgement of this.
I suggest just getting around this issue by: 1) renaming the actual package and command "iron"[1] or whatever you choose so that it can stay in main 2) making a non-free transition package called ion3 which depends on the new package, has the symlink, and contains the annoying postinst. Don Armstrong 1: For Fe3+, of course. ;-) -- We cast this message into the cosmos. [...] We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe. -- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
