On 20 July 2011 04:54, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
I have followed it. But I also told you that it's not a problem in my opinion if people have to do some manual work for upgrading it once. Just post an announcement about the changes to the News section of the website, the mailing lists and/or the wiki.
This is only necessary once.
We all agree on the proper naming for that. It's just that it has become a technical problem now due to the initial naming, and to work around that technical problem, there's not enough justification. If it were part of a larger software group, like Python and its modules, then there'd be ample justification (like "consistency"). Why? Because, 'virtualbox-additions' would be just as confusing as 'virtualbox-guest-additions' to a newcomer. To an existing user, a name change may look good, but would introduce a one-time annoying breakage. We cannot justify the extra work and that breakage in order to introduce this name change, since it won't be a problem to maintain the current name (which isn't "wrong") in the first place, while there are no other packages or conditions _requiring_ us to name the package as such.
Nevertheless, do you really need versioned replaces? I mean Arch Linux is a rolling release distro which contains only one version (the latest) of each package in the repos. So you can assume that people always use the most up-to-date versions.
I don't think you understood this. Versioned replaces will solve replacements (see ML discussion linked in BR). -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10