On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:59:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:43:26PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I am working on taking over toshutils. One of the things I would like > > to do is incorporate a patch that updates it from GTK+ to GTK2. The > > patch came from ALT Linux. > > > Up to now I have been considering keeping the toshutils package as it is > > and then adding a second binary package from the same source, called > > toshutils-gtk2. However, in reading the Policy Manual about the use of > > Replaces, I am not sure how to proceed. The Policy Manual states that > > it is a violation of policy for a pacakge to contain files in the same > > location as another package without replacing it. Specifically: > > > "It is an error for a package to contain files which are on the system in > > another package, unless Replaces is used" > > > This leaves me in the akward position of having toshutils and > > toshutils-gtk2 both Conflict and Replace each other. That doesn't really > > make sense. > > > I have a few options: > > > 1) Setup toshutils-gtk2 to compile binaries to have different names and > > maybe not have them Conflict. > > 2) Have both packages use the same binary names, remove the Conflict and > > set them up to use alternatives. > > 3) Forget about a GTK+ version and press ahead with a GTK2 only package. > > 4) Forget about a GTK2 version and press ahead with a GTK+ only package. > > > I would like to know what everyone thinks. > > Forget about the GTK+ 1.2 version, so we can let that library die? >
Good. That is what I wanted to do, but I wasn't sure how it would go over. Second question, how do handle the version numbering? Increment only the Debian part of the version and include the GTK2 patch as a Debian patch? Patch the original source and sort of make my own "new upstream release" and increment that main version number? Also, should I plan this bing uploaded to unstable or experimental? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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