Hi Frank, On 26 December 2008 at 16:19, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: | About the snow problem, I would propose the following solution: | | 1) Dirk should file a RC bug against snow to document what is | going on, feel free to clone this one for this purpose. | 2) Then upload his original snow package with a suitable version | number (you will probably need to use an epoch), closing the RC | bug.
Ok. But how do I delete the desparation r-cran-snow (version 0.3.3-2) I placed in NEW and that would get replaced by 1:0.3.3-2 ? It has a new source package as (prior to this thread) nobody really replied to my requests for help. | 3) This will go to NEW, since the binary package isn't | present in unstable anymore. But we can probably fast-track this. | 4) This will then overwrite the new snow package and if Jari wants | to upload his package again, he will need to choose another source | package name. Sounds good to me. | If anyone sees any issues with this proposed solution, please speak | up fast. | | Using the source package name snow for the new package is really no | option since it just confuses all the websites and other infrastructure | to no end (and the users, too...). Agreed. Snow, for better or worse, is tagged to by r-cran-snow so Jary could create a new steg-snow or snow-steg or a different name. Best regards, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
