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Re: Renaming a package



Previously Ian McKellar wrote:
> I'm taking over the sawmill package. Due to name conflicts with a commercial
> package sawmill is being renamed to sawfish. Should I install symlinks from
> the old binaries to the new ones? Is a renamed package with Replaces: lines
> the right way of telling apt/dpkg/dselect how to upgrade systems?

Replaces,Conflicts & Provides. See that packaging manual.

Wichert.

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