Re: Renaming a package
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:51:56PM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Okay,
>
> I've got test debs up at
> deb http://yakk.ucc.asn.au/debian yakk main
>
> 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.
Are you sure that apt knew about all of your packages? I recommend
having the dummy sawmill which only depends on sawfish; I've had the
same problem with fvwm and that's the only solution that I know of for
the time being.
> There are no symlinks. Is that okay? Symlinks will only delay the inevitable.
Sounds fine. You may, though, want to put in programs, manpages
etc. in the sawmill package called sawfish, sawfish.1 or whatever
which simply tell the user that the filenames have changed, then
remove them for woody+1.
Julian
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