Luke Faraone » autokey http://luke.faraone.cc/blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:13:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Sometimes things get complicated… (Handling upgrades from Karmic) http://luke.faraone.cc/blog/2010/01/sometimes-things-get-complicated-handling-upgrades-from-karmic/ http://luke.faraone.cc/blog/2010/01/sometimes-things-get-complicated-handling-upgrades-from-karmic/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:36:58 +0000 luke http://luke.faraone.cc/blog/?p=116 I’m the package maintainer for Autokey in Debian. Upstream recently changed from using GTK+ to Qt4, which caused more than one complaint from users of testing.

The GTK+ version of the package is published in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. While upstream is continuing to do regular releases of the GTK version, they are focusing on the KDE version and have changed autokey to refer to the KDE version, while renaming the GTK version (formally autokey) to autokey-gtk. To make matters worse, upstream releases both as separate tarballs, and the packages conflict with one another.  (due to technical limitations)

What’s the proper proceedure for handling this in Ubuntu? Should -gtk conflict with autokey, replace it, with  autokey-qt being available as an option, or should I just keep things as they are and have the package “change out from under” users when they upgrade?

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