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Re: Renaming a package



On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:51:56PM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> The sawmill and sawmill-gnome packages have disappeared. The new sawfish
> package "Replaces: sawmill", "Conflicts: sawmill" and that seems to have
> made the upgrade okay. When I had a dummy sawmill package that "Depends:
> sawfish" apt refused to upgrade the packages.

I guess a "Provides:" will make apt install sawfish if you do a
~# apt-get install sawmill
so you should include that as well.

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