Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] New debian snapshots

[thomas schorpp <thomas schorpp googlemail com>]

Luca Capello schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> No flame, please, I'm looking for information.
>
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:38:37 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> > New debian snapshots are available.  The name of packages has been
> > changed.  Install the newest ekiga and dependencies with:
> > apt-get install ekiga
>
> What's the rationale for this change?  This doesn't allow anymore
> installing *both* ekiga stable and -snapshot.

more worse, won't allow upgrade at all due to unfixed(?) gconf issue(s) not 
handled by the package's installer.

> According to [1], I understand this as your first step into
> co-maintainership of ekiga and its rdepends, with the result of new
> ekiga packages in Debian experimental.
>
> However, will snapshots.e.n stop providing snapshot packages after the
> new ekiga will enter Debian?  I don't think this is the desired
> solution, which means that the package should be (again) renamed to
> -snapshot.

I would second that and suggest rollback to the previous snapshot maintainer's practice.

> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2008-August/012129.html

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