On 19 December 2017 at 09:12, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Monday, December 18, 2017 08:00:49 PM Rene Engelhard wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:24:08PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > It'll go through New anyway (if I remember correctly) because it's > taking > > > over a binary from another source package > > > > No, that doesn't go through NEW. E.g. (from my not to distant memory) > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/scowl/news/20171020T215207Z.html didn't > > need NEW (and it took hunspell-en-us over from hunspell-en-us and > > hunspell-en-{us,ca} from libreoffice-dictionaries) > > I'm probably mis-remembering then. > I don't know if it's what you're remembering, but you can't upload such a package as a DM (even if you have upload rights to the source package whose binary is being hijacked!) Cheers, mwh
