On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:49:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > [...] > > - Remove _all_ out of date dummy packages! (see #308711 and other bugs!) > > Note: Almost done by ftp-masters, some pending and needs to be reviewed > > to remove woody->sarge which are not applicable to ->etch > IMHO, we should keep dummy packages around for at least two releases, > to support upgrades which skip one release. In practice, upgrades that skip a release are not supported. There was no way at all that upgrades from potato->sarge could have been supported, and it's not a goal of the release team to support direct upgrades from woody->etch. So keeping these dummy packages around is simply needless overhead, IMHO, both in the archive and in the Packages files. > Instead of a crusade against dummy packages (some of which are not old > enough so that removing them does any good), I would like to see a > crusade *for* dummy packages, so that a package which changes name > without a dummy package is considered a RC bug and we are forced to > fix it While I don't think the release should block on having dummy packages for all such upgrades, I certainly agree quite strongly that maintainers should be doing whatever possible to support automated upgrade paths in these cases. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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