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. -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jsogo@debian.org
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