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Re: RFC: Upstream author renamed his software



On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> Dear fellow developpers,
> 
> I'm requesting your advice, since this situation is new for me:
> 
> I maintain the iiwusynth debian package, but yesterday, upstream author announced
> the application has been renamed to FluidSynth.
> 
> What am I supposed to do about my package ?
> Do I need to file an ITP ?

 No, unless more things have changed and you make the new package
 promptly.

> Should I just upload a version with the new name and ask ftp-masters to remove
> the other package ?

 Yes.

> How should I warn our users about the name change ?

 Use apropiate Conflics, Provides, Replaces fields in control file. See,
 for example, gnome-system-tools package.

-- 
  Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
     jsogo@debian.org

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