[Debian-med-packaging] Renaming binary package gnuhealth to gnuhealth-server?

Emilien Klein emilien+debian at klein.st
Mon Apr 29 20:21:10 UTC 2013


Hi,

GNU Health has 2 components:
- Server (in the form of modules for the Tryton application server)
- Client (the Tryton client, could have extra parameters pre-populated)

Until now there was one source package gnuhealth generating a single
binary package gnuhealth. I would like the source package (keeping the
same name) to generate 2 binary packages: gnuhealth-server and
gnuhealth-client.

Part of the reasoning is that in the future, I would like to generate
a new gnuhealth-client package that would depend on tryton-client, and
helpfully pass it startup parameters (such as the database that was
created for gnuhealth-server, if the client is installed on the same
machine as the server)

The package has until now only been uploaded once to Experimental, I
therefore think that renaming the binary package should not be an
issue, and that we don't necessary need to take extra steps to handle
the package renaming for users that would have installed the original
gnuhealth binary package (right now Popcon 1, might even just be
me...)

Are there any concerns on this binary package renaming?
   +Emilien



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