Hi Dne Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:34:03 +0100 Daniel Baumann <dan...@debian.org> napsal(a):
> as you know, gqview is dead and geeqie is its successor. I'm going to
> ask for its removal soon. However, in order to make lenny->squeeze
> upgrades as smoth as possible, it would be nice if you could add a
> transitional package for gqview to geeqie.
Well Geeqie upstream still suggests using GQview as something stable,
so I'm not really sure if it is good time for dropping it.
> Note that since you do not add a new binary package to the archive, you
> will not have to go through NEW for this, however, since gqview has a
> higher version than geeqie, the latter needs to introduce an epoche in
> order to do this. I've attached a patch for that.
>
> Let me know what you think. In case you like it, please go ahead and
> upload it - once the geeqie with gqview transitional package is
> accepted, i'm going to ask for the removal of gqview (other way round
> would need geeqie to require to pass NEW for the transitional package).
>
> Btw, one could also add a gqview -> geeqie symlink in /usr/bin (and for
> the manpage), let me know if you want me to send another patch for that
> as well.
I think it would probably make sense if we want to make it drop in
replacement.
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