Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> writes: > [Simon Josefsson] >> What if some service depends on the "shishid" service (not likely >> but maybe possible?). > > There is no package in debian depending on the existing provides, > according to <URL:http://lintian.debian.org/~pere/test-20091006.log>. > >> Is this possible: >> >> # Provides: shishi-kdc shishid > > Yes, this is possible. > >> Even if it is possible, and we'd use it, I wonder when it would be safe >> to remove the 'shishid' part. Keeping 'shishid' in the Provides: may >> result in people starting to use it. So maybe it is simpler to just >> change 'shishid' to 'shishi-kdc' and deal with any breakage separately >> now rather than later. > > I agree that this is a better approach, given that no one depend on > that script at the moment.
Good -- I have made the change in CVS. I don't think this change is critical, though, so I'll try to get a new release of Shishi out before doing another upload. There are some things in the actual code that I want to fix before squeeze... Thanks, /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
