Re: Renaming a package
On 12-May-00, 09:51 (CDT), Ian McKellar <yakk-debian-devel@yakk.net.au> wrote:
> 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.
This doesn't seem to provide an automatic upgrade...but I may be
wrong, since I still have the old sawmill package in my available
file. (What I mean my "auto-upgrade" is "if I have sawmill installed, I
automatically get it replaced by sawfish, without having to explicitly
select sawfish).
Steve
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