let's kill src:lsb

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022, Gioele Barabucci wrote:

> How would the replacement be done, in practice?
> 
> By renaming the binary package lsb-release-minimal as lsb-release? Or simply

Either that (probably better) or by adding a transitional package
(probably much more wasteful).

> by letting the dependency resolvers pick-up the `Provides: lsb-release`
> declaration of lsb-release-minimal?

No, this won’t upgrade existing bin:lsb-release packages.

Ideally rename the binary package (needs to go through binNEW of
course), but this will leave the existing users of lsb-release-minimal
hanging in the same way… but since it’s only in experimental, this
is probably okay.

For lsb-base, just adding the files to bin:sysvinit-utils together
with all three of Provides/Conflicts/Replaces (and yes, this needs
Conflicts, not Breaks, even if lintian is going to complain) and
stopping to have a separate lsb-base package should do the trick
because sysvinit-utils is Essential.

bye,
//mirabilos
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