Re: Epoch bump request for ksh

From	Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: Epoch bump request for ksh
Date	2021-09-11 20:00 +0200
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* Anuradha Weeraman <anuradha@debian.org> [2021-09-11 21:37]:
>However, I feel that given ksh93u+ is unmaintained upstream, existing
>users of src:ksh stands to gain from the defect fixes and improvements
>made without having to switch to a new package given that ksh93u+m
>is maintaining the same code base that would have been otherwise
>unmaintained. This would avoid having to maintain two packages, one which
>is unmaintained upstream and one that is.
>
>Open to your suggestions on the way forward.

https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages has a few good suggestions.
Maybe the transition package method would be appropriate here?
You could probably put the transitional package into the new source
package and use "dh_gencontrol --package=ksh -v20210511" in d/rules
to make it supersede the old binary package and ensure a clean
upgrade path.

Cheers
Timo

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Epoch bump request for ksh Anuradha Weeraman <anuradha@debian.org> - 2021-09-10 14:20 +0200
  Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Phil Morrell <debian@emorrp1.name> - 2021-09-10 15:30 +0200
    Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Anuradha Weeraman <anuradha@debian.org> - 2021-09-10 16:40 +0200
      Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Anuradha Weeraman <anuradha@debian.org> - 2021-09-10 19:00 +0200
        Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 16:20 +0200
          Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Anuradha Weeraman <anuradha@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 18:30 +0200
            Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 20:00 +0200
              Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Anuradha Weeraman <anuradha@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 20:40 +0200
      Re: Epoch bump request for ksh Phil Morrell <debian@emorrp1.name> - 2021-09-11 01:30 +0200

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