pidgin uploaded to unstable

Thibaut VARENE varenet at debian.org
Mon May 7 18:10:14 UTC 2007


On 5/7/07, Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 5/7/07, Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> A simpler way is just to generate this dummy package as a gaim-plugin
> arch:all target that depends upon pidgin-plugin, within the
> debian/control for pidgin-plugin.

That's precisely what I suggested in my question pointing out that it
would make it impossible to upload the 'dummy package' /after/ the
pidgin-plugin one...

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