<quote who="Don Armstrong" date="Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:30:57PM -0700"> > 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 if the version being installed is out of date (or may be out of date, 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.
Yes, please rename the package and include a non-free transition package. I do not currently use any packages in non-free and really don't want to turn it on for this since it can be so easily avoided. FWIW, I like the name fission. Later, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mako.cc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
