[Cyril Brulebois] > I disagree that reusing package names across package types is a nice > thing to do. I very strongly disagree that it's OK to try that when > we're close to the freeze (and not at the very beginning of the > release cycle, where it hurts less to upload disruptive changes).
Given that udebs and debs have different name spaces, I do not see any problem myself with dropping a name from one namespace and introducing it in another, which is what I did when I renamed archdetect to archdetect-udeb in the udeb namespace and introduced the archdetect name into the deb namespace. The freeze is two months away. I understand you see the freeze as very close, while I see it as a bit further away. I fully respect your view about the urgenzy, even if I do not quite share it. I believe fixing the d-i build could have been done this week (for example by uploading a new debian-installer package without the kernel change), and was prepared to get any required fixes in place as soon as possible. > As I already mentioned, you had been told in advance more stuff > would have to be adjusted! I noticed you mentioned IRC messages I hadn't seen before you mentioned them here in the mail, so I guess they were said while I was away from IRC. I had tested the change, but simply forgot to check the debian-installer initrd build. I am still sorry about this. > Sticking to naming schemes is nice, but that certainly shouldn't be a > reason for renaming packages and generating more work! You could look > at the file you modified: [...] > *-udeb really isn't mandatory in any way! Sure, but it is used when there is a deb and an udeb. The common naming then is <package> for the deb name space and <package>-udeb for the udeb namespace. I did not check them all, but as far as I can tell, the examples without the '-udeb' ending do not have a package in the deb namespace. > So yes, I reverted these changes since renaming is unwarranted, > already broke things, and might break others; I'm not interested in > dealing with possible fallouts due to cosmetics. My approach would have been to fix the remaining issues and keep the archdetect and archdetect-udeb names, but I'm not starting competing for commits uploads over this and will try to find time for the fix after Jessie instead. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
