Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

["Adam D. Barratt" <highvol-debian-devel@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM
> Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second
> one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is
> removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still 
> remains
> in  oldstable.
>
> Question: Can the second source package take the first source package's
> (less awkward) name, or does it have to wait until oldstable is archived?

So far as I can tell, that should be fine.

dak requires that (source, version) tuples be unique, so the new source 
package would need to have a different (practically, higher) version than 
the old one; that's not a problem in this case.

Adam