[PATCH 4 of 4 STABLE] packaging: ship only a single binary Debian package

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 05:22:22PM +0200, Denis Laxalde wrote:
> packaging: ship only a single binary Debian package
> 
> We merge the mercurial and mercurial-common binary packages into a
> single mercurial package. This is essentially to ease installation (and
> upgrade) using a simple "dpkg -i" command. This also simplifies
> debian/rules by removing arch (in)dependent cleanups during
> installation.
> 
> We have the mercurial binary Breaks: and Replaces: mercurial-common so
> that the latter will be removed upon upgrade.
> 
Diverging from the debian packaging this way is super bad, means you
can't cleanly go back to the debian-provided version.  And the provided
rationale seems quite dubious to me.

Cheers,
Julien