On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Evgeni Golov <evg...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:51:03PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> we created the metapackage for upgrades and convenience. > Why not retire the gnome-games metapackage if it was only for upgrades?
Sorry, I was unclear in my original email, but you missed the second part: it's a convenient way to install most or all of the "simple" GNOME games, some of which were never even in the original gnome-games binary package. > As far as I can see it, the real package is in wheezy, and since jessie > we have the transitional one. Same will apply for stretch. And for buster > you can safely drop it and re-introduce the real app under that name? Several packages depend on the gnome-games metapackage and it's not practical to change all of them this late in the stretch Freeze. The best that could be done would be to make it a transitional package for stretch. Remove it for buster and then re-use the name in buster+1. But I don't think it's worth it. You can do like I did and complain to the developer for re-using the name if you want. And then move on, if the arguments don't work. (It's still not packaged in many distros and I wouldn't mind renaming it in Debian.) Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
