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Author: Ivan J.
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To: devuan developers internal list
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] Actions from last meeting
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Daniel Reurich wrote:

> On 20/10/17 09:54, Ivan J. wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, KatolaZ wrote:
> >
> >> - ACTION: @parazyd will produce a one-shot script to import the
> >>           MATE and Cinnamon repos by Antofox, and build them

> >
> > They are already ready for the most part. Will need trivial tweaks for
> > our infra.
> >
> >> - ACTION: @everybody test the proposed eudev packages, to check that
> >>         they work in all possible update/upgrade scenarios: 
> >>          - Debian/Wheezy -> Devuan/Jessie
> >>         - Debian/Jessie -> Devuan/Jessie
> >>         - Devuan/Jessie -> Devuan/Ascii
> >>         - Debian/Stretch -> Devuan/Ascii
> >>         - Devuan/Ascii -> Devuan/Ceres

> >
> > For this one we should reconsider and talk to tremon about testing his
> > version with epoch 1:. The sources are on his gitlab profile:
> > https://git.devuan.org/tremon/eudev
> >
> >> - ACTION: @everybody test all possible install/update/upgrade paths
> >>           involving ASCII, namely:
> >>       - Fresh ASCII install
> >>       - Devuan/Jessie -> Devuan/ASCII
> >>           - Debian/Stretch -> Devuan/ASCII

> >
> > This one should be on hold until we get eudev in the repos.
>
> There is no reason to set an epoch at all.
>
> the package should not build or ship libudev... but libeudev and have:
> "Provides: libudev1 (=<libudev version>)
> "Replaces: libudev1
>
> This allows a drop in replacement for libudev without the name conflict
> and provides a seemless transition to eudev.


I seriously don't prefer renaming it to libeudev. But if everyone else
wants to, and reaches consensus, I will merge the patch you can come up
with.

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