On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:04:40PM +0100, Maximilian Gaß wrote: >On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:40:52AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:50:45PM +0100, Maximilian Gaß wrote: >> >Package: cdrkit >> >Severity: normal >> > >> >cdrkit replaced cdrtools and the old tools are only symlinks to the >> >new ones. But the manpages are not symlinked accordingly, leading to >> >missing manpages for cdrecord and the like. >> >> ACK. It's too late to do this for lenny, but I'm planning on simply >> removing the symlinks to the old tool names in the first upload after >> the release. > >I don't think breaking compatibility for no good reason is a good idea.
Well, that was always the plan. We just kept around the compatibility symlinks so that Debian packages of tools like k3b would continue to work until they were updated. By now that should have happened, so we'd like to clean up the symlinks. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
