[Dev] [RFC] Voting about package naming for packages modified from Arch

Luke Shumaker lukeshu at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 30 16:45:26 GMT 2014


At Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:06:37 -0300,
Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
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> Michał Masłowski <mtjm at mtjm.eu> writes:
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> >> if renaming is cumbersome (after 5 years doing it?) i guess a
> >> post_{install,upgrade} note with the reason would be more helpful.
> >
> > Can we do it via news on parabolagnulinux.org instead?  (This would also
> > work for changes like removing nonfree packages.)  Unless the changes
> > require special work after an update and are not interesting for users
> > who don't install the affected package.
> 
> do both?

Or we just make not-crappy comments in blacklist.txt?

We could even generate a web page from it.

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~ Luke Shumaker



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