Bug#545802: libjgrapht0.6-java-link: Unusual name for a default package

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 22:02:04 +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Guillem Jover<guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> > This package has a non-conventional name for a default package, the
> > -link postfix is a bit confusing. Could you rename it to libjgrapht-java
> > instead? Or is there a problem with using that one?
> 
> yes, both such packages are just bloat. Why not moving the unversioned
> symlink and the unversioned Provides field to the versioned
> libjgrapht0.6-java package?

Hmm, ah ok after enabling contrib I see this now more clearly.
There's:

 Version	Source			Binary

 0.6.0-5	libjgrapht-java		libjgrapht-java
 					libjgrapht0.6-java
 0.6.0-8	libjgrapht0.6-java	libjgrapht0.6-java-link
					libjgrapht0.6-java
 0.7.3-2	libjgrapht-java		libjgrapht-java
 					libjgrapht0.7-java

Version 0.6.0-8 is the only one in main, the rest are in contrib.
Isn't the 0.7 version in contrib supposed to be moved to main also?

So, if there's supposed to be different versions of the package (0.6,
0.7, 0.8, etc), I think preserving the unversioned package makes sense,
otherwise the versioned ones cannot be co-installed. And probably
moving the unversioned binary package from the old source package to
the new one, once the default has to be switched (0.6 → 0.7).

> BTW, who files the removal request against the now obsolete
> libjgrapht-java source package?

But that package contains the latest version 0.7, doesn't it?

regards,
guillem