freebsd-buildutils and freebsd5-buildutils (was: no subject)

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> While trying to adopt your packages concerning kfreebsd, I noticed that
> there is two packages very similar, kfreebsd-buildutils and
> kfreebsd5-buildutils. Could you tell me what are the exact differences, as
> they seems to contain very similar files (although kfreebsd-buildutils
> seems to be slightly outdated)? Moreover kfreebsd5-source depends on
> kfreebsd5-buildutils or kfreebsd-buildutils (actually on a version that
> still don't exists).
> 
> If one of them could not be directly dropped, do you think it would be
> possible to merge them?

I'm not Robert, but perhaps I can give a partial answer.

First of all, I assume you really mean "freebsd-buildutils" and
"freebsd5-buildutils" here.

If you diff the changelogs you will see that freebsd5-buildutils is
clearly derived from freebsd-buildutils, this is the first changelog
entry in freebsd5-buildutils not in freebsd-buildutils:

+freebsd5-buildutils (5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fork for 5.x branch (package been renamed).
+    - patches/02_silly_macros.diff:  Sync.
+
+ -- Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:14:35 +0100

If the meaning of this is "let's rename the package so that we can
break compatibility with 4.x", then I assume we could happily drop the
old freebsd-buildutils package.