Debian Bug report logs - #652623
Please provide archfs transitional package to ease upgrades

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jon Dowland <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: O: archfs -- rdiff-backup virtual filesystem (hijacked)

Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 13:45:27 +0100

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

archfs has been renamed to rdiff-backup-fs by upstream.
Another Debian developer has uploaded an rdiff-backup-fs
package independent from this one.  I will therefore take
the opportunity to shed my responsibility for the package.

I'll hold off uploading a new version to change Maintainer:
a transitional package should be uploaded to facilitate
smooth upgrades, that might as well be handled by the new
package and the new maintainer.


-- 
Jon Dowland

Message #8 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luca Falavigna <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Should archfs be removed?

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:54:50 +0100

Hi Jon,

in bug #633101, you state archfs has been superseded by rdiff-backup-fs,
which has been recently packaged. I wonder whether it could be advisable
to remove archfs from the archive, perhaps cloning this bug report to
rdiff-backup-fs, asking to implement a transitional package for archfs
upgrade. What do you think?

Message #13 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jon Dowland <[email protected]>

To: Luca Falavigna <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#633101: Should archfs be removed?

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:08:05 +0000

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 02:54:50AM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> in bug #633101, you state archfs has been superseded by rdiff-backup-fs,
> which has been recently packaged. I wonder whether it could be advisable
> to remove archfs from the archive, perhaps cloning this bug report to
> rdiff-backup-fs, asking to implement a transitional package for archfs
> upgrade. What do you think?

Yes, something like that is a good idea.  I mostly left this in the
rdiff-backup-fs maintainer's hands (to do a provides/conflicts/replaces) but
there hasn't been any progress.  Perhaps encoding this in bugs is a good
idea.


-- 
Jon Dowland

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