On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> Dear fellow developpers,
>
> I'm requesting your advice, since this situation is new for me:
>
> I maintain the iiwusynth debian package, but yesterday, upstream author announced
> the application has been renamed to FluidSynth.
>
> What am I supposed to do about my package ?
> Do I need to file an ITP ?
No, unless more things have changed and you make the new package
promptly.
> Should I just upload a version with the new name and ask ftp-masters to remove
> the other package ?
Yes.
> How should I warn our users about the name change ?
Use apropiate Conflics, Provides, Replaces fields in control file. See,
for example, gnome-system-tools package.
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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org
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