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On 15:49 Sat 08 Dec , Alon Bar-Lev wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I want to make gnupg-2 stable. |
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> The problem is that gnupg-1.9 was slotted as slot "1.9" and made stable. |
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> So now we have two slots, slot "0" and slot "1.9". |
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> gnupg-2 is drop-in replacement of gnupg-1, so eventually no slotting |
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> should be used. |
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> As far as I see, there are two migration pathes I can use: |
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> 1. Mark gnupg-2 stable, as it blocks older versions, this results in |
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> forcing users to manually unmerge the gnugp-1.9 series, this is the |
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> quickest and simplest migration path. |
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Seems reasonable. Any particular reason to slot gnupg-2 as SLOT 0 rather |
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than SLOT 1.9? |
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> 2. Perform slot-move of slot "0" and slot "1.9" into slot "2", so |
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> migration will be smooth. The problem is that I need all archs to work |
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> with me in timely manner so that this will be possible. I have |
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> bug#194113 waiting for arm, mips, s390, sh, and this only for the |
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> dependencies. |
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I can imagine this resulting in very weird issues, when you have two of |
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the same package installed in the same slot. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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