pidgin uploaded to unstable

[Ari Pollak]

(I hope you don't mind that i'm CCing this to everyone)

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 17:17 +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> > - Prepare a gaim-plugin dummy package that just depends on
> > pidgin-plugin, but don't upload this until the gaim dummy packages are
> > uploaded. I'd be glad to upload your package at the same time as the
> > dummy gaim packages, just let me know.
> 
> This I don't get:
> 1) can you remind me the proper way to create this dummy package?
> 2) I assume the dummy package will have the same source as the
> pidgin-plugin one? If so, how am I supposed to upload the new
> pidgin-plugin one without the dummy package?

This would just be an Arch: all package with an entry in debian/control
that depends on the new package and a description that says it's a dummy
package, and it wouldn't contain anything other than normal files
in /usr/share/doc/<package>. You'd probably want the dummy package to
take over the source and name of the old gaim plugin package, so that
you would be able to upload it separately from the pidgin plugin
package. The dummy package would just take precedence over the old gaim
plugin package.

This is what the gaim package will look like as a dummy/transitional
package:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnome/packages/unstable/gaim/trunk/debian/control?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
Note that this is way more complex than you would probably need, since
you probably wouldn't have extra -data, -dbg, and -dev packages, and you
wouldn't need to include any compatibility symlinks. Once Lenny is
released, you can request removal of the transitional package from the
archive.