Re: Renaming a package

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> 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.

Unless dselect has been changed recently, this alone does not tell 
dselect to select the new package over the old one. In addition
to Replaces, Conflicts and Provides you should use a dummy package 
for that.