Re: Renaming a package
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:41:03PM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
Okay,
What about a dummy `sawmill' package that depends on `sawfish' and contains
only some symlinks so peoples .xsession files don't break. This package can
be dropped at a later stage. Does that sound like a good plan?
Ian
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