Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 07:09 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Nieder: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > I vote against this patch. It was planned to coordinate things with > > the debhelper maintainer(s) before the final step. > > The easiest way to coordinate is to just communicate what you're > thinking. But okay.
Hm. I'm sure, I commented your last mail. But it seems, I don't even have a copy of my answer. Sorry for that. So in short: (1) The problem has already been "solved" by removing sgml-base from experimental. (2) The idea of the transition is simple: No maintainer needs to change anything manually. By introducing the change to create snippets calling update-sgmlcatalog the required version of sgml-base in the resulting packages is just bumped. The old name would stay (as a link) for at least next stable+1 but create a warning. IMO this is legal. I saw this for several other tools. The warning wouldn't require any action. The next build/ upload of the affected package would fix the situation automatically. Of course one could do a mass binary-nmu, but by waiting for next-stable+1 before removing the command, the amount of packages requiring such an action would be minimal. This was the idea behind. I just got stopped by real life and time constraints. That's all. The whole SGML and XML core system needs a rewrite, because there are some policy violations and some inconsistencies and some incompatibilities to existing tools (like xmlcatalog). Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
