[Pkg-openldap-devel] time to change the source package name?

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:22:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> > I realized, after I'd finished uploading openldap2.3 2.4.10-1, that I
> > completely botched the orig.tar.gz preparation by doing it by hand
> > instead of using the get-orig-source target; so we have stray schema
> > files in the tarball in the archive that should've been pruned.

> We should probably make the check in debian/rules stronger to fail the
> build when that happens.

I agree, but don't have time to look at it right now; I'd be happy if
someone could take care of this.

> > Since that means rolling a new tarball anyway, I wonder whether this
> > wouldn't be an opportune time to change the source package name to
> > 'openldap'?  There are only 7 open bugs remaining on the 'openldap2.3'
> > source package (as opposed to the binary packages), which seems like a
> > perfectly manageable number to have to munge by hand following the
> > package name change; and that sidesteps having to create a bogus
> > upstream version number to get a unique .orig.tar.gz file.

> I'm wholeheartedly in favor.  I've wanted that renaming for a while.  :)

Done. Hurray!

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