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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007
  @ 2007-11-06 20:03 99%   ` Marius Mauch
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From: Marius Mauch @ 2007-11-06 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:15:12 -0500
Mark Loeser <mark@halcy0n.com> wrote:

> Just to get a wider audience involved in this...this just seems wrong
> to do.  There is a QA bug open about it as well:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198248
> 
> What are other people's feelings on using package moves to forcibly
> migrate people like this?  It also sounds like this wasn't announced
> at all and the packages just left the tree.

A package move via "update" file is simply an extension of a mv
command. If you also had to edit the ebuild a package move is generally
not the right thing to do. Remember that a package move applies to all
versions of a package, and upstream name changes are generally tied to
specific versions.

Marius
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