#738172 Track renames of source packages

Package:
security-tracker
Source:
security-tracker
Submitter:
Moritz Muehlenhoff
Date:
2026-07-05 11:43:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#738172#5
Date:
2014-02-08 10:46:48 UTC
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It would be useful to track source package renames. For that we'd need a
mapping file of the old source package name and the new one. Specific
example: If a entry is commited for src:linux a script could automatically
add an entry for "linux-2.6 <removed>".

Cheers,
        Moritz
#738172#8
Date:
2014-02-08 19:26:19 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 security-tracker

The BTS might benefit from something like this as well (but also for
binary packages), so that bugs are not "lost" on package renames (emacs,
linux, gcc, etc.) :p

Kind regards,
Andrei
#738172#15
Date:
2014-03-06 01:31:36 UTC
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This should have gone to #738172 and not #738712 :)

/me wondered what pkg-kdeextras had to do with this :-P
#738172#24
Date:
2026-07-05 11:31:48 UTC
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tags 738172 - fixed-upstream
usertags 738172 - status-closed
thanks

The GitLab issue was closed due to inactivity but the fix not merged in
the Debian security tracker (though it is merged in the ELTS tracker).

The last comment still holds:
https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team/security-tracker/-/merge_requests/88#note_482752

Cheers!
Sylvain