Re: RFC: Upstream author renamed his software
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, 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 ?
If you want to be nice to your users, upload the package with the new
name. Wait until it actually enters the archive (remember there is a
slight delay the first time as adding it is a manual process.) When it is
there make the old package a dummy that does nothing except depend on the
new package. You can even build it from the control file of the new
package if you like. In the description explain the situation and tell
the user they can purge this once the new package is installed. DO NOT
use debconf notes for this type of thing. Once an entire Debian release
cycle has passed, (if you haven't died of old age by then :) file a bug
with ftpmaster asking for the old, dummy package to be removed.
That's what I did with webmin-ssl and uw-imap-ssl which were note needed
after crypto entered main.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
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