Re: Is it worth keeping dbix-easy-perl in Debian?

gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:45:05 +0100

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On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:24:06 +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:

> > We've done this recently, maybe (I hope so) Étienne remembers the
> > details.
> > (My vague memories say: Probably yes.)
> I think you're after Roland Rosenfeld's answer about the package
> renaming.  :)

Oh, right, sorry. And thanks Roland for your reply to Andreas!
 
> I only have been involved in a couple of dpt-takeover(1) from
> pkg-perl-tools, but it's a useful command to investigate too if
> you have to proceed to salvaging.  I'm not sure what the best
> order is, but I believe that you want to run the takeover first
> and then proceed to the renaming, as otherwise the takeover
> would run on a non-existing package.  

Ack.

> But on the other hand, the
> package will be pushed to its perl-team salsa location with the
> old name, so in any case there will be some manual handling.

… unless you use
"-n  Local operation. The resulting Git repository is not pushed to salsa.debian.org."

:)
 

Cheers,
gregor

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