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Auteur: Hendrik Boom
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [Dng] package suffix Re: Just call Jessie Jessie
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 06:14:38PM +0000, dan pridgeon wrote:
> JessieD Have a Blessed day.
> Dan
>
> “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
>  patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
>  but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and 
>  woman.” ~Thomas Paine | 1776
> "The cure for 1984 is the Spirit of 1776."
>       From: Godefridus Daalmans <frits@???>
>  To: dng@??? 
>  Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 12:09 PM
>  Subject: [Dng] package suffix Re: Just call Jessie Jessie

>
> In-Reply-To: <20141215160426.GD29016@???>
> References: <20141215160426.GD29016@???>
>
> > Our plan is to release Jessie, but without systemd.
> >
> > To make it clear that's what we are doing, what could be simpler
> > than to use the name Jessie for our version of Jessie.
> >
> > Instead of me talking about Debian Jessie, I'd just talk about Devuan
> > Jessie.
> >
> > The most obvious difference will be that apt-sources mentions devuan
> > repositories where it now mentions debian repositories.
> >
> > If we go our own way after that, we need not retain the same release
> > names.
> >
> > -- hendrik
> >
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>
> 95% of the packages are going to be the same, anyway.
>
> I think it would be nice for everyone involved (Debian AND Devuan users
> and
> developers) if the *package* names were distinguishable. So that if
> there's a problem,
> you can see whether it's the Debian or Devuan version that's installed.
>
> Something similar was done by Marillat with his Debian Multimedia, IIRC:
> it made a lot of difference in functionality, if you had
> ffmpeg version 6:0.8.16-1 installed (patent-crippled USA-friendly Debian
> version) or
> the version
> ffmpeg version 8:1.0.6-dmo2 (deb-multimedia.org, why couldn't Debian
> have kept "non-US")
>
> where I suspect that C.M. used the letters "dmo2" to distinguish it from
> the
> default, Debian version.
>
> Pretty soon it's going to make some difference whether you have
> cups 1.2.3-4+devuan installed, or the vanilla cups 1.2.3-4


If the version numbers are going to be that long, we're going to have
to change the layout of the interactive mode of aptitude. Just so we
have a chance of seeing them.

Another possibility might be to change the package name.

-- hendrik