Re: Renaming a package

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 02:53:49PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Unless dselect has been changed recently, this alone does not tell 
> > dselect to select the new package over the old one.
> 
> It will if you select the new one.

But in the case being discussed, the intent is to upgrade sawmill
seamlessly to sawfish.  I think that's going to require a dummy
package.

Jules


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