Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > [...] upload the package with the new name. Wait until it actually > enters the archive [...] When it is there make the old package a > dummy that does nothing except depend on the new package. [...] In > the description explain the situation and tell the user they can > purge this once the new package is installed. [...] Once an entire > Debian release cycle has passed, (if you haven't died of old age by > then :) file a bug with ftpmaster asking for the old, dummy package > to be removed. Agreed. Note that this is one reason why updating from an older released debian version to a newer released debian version should not skip intermediate versions. If you do skip major released versions then this process to walk a package to a newer version is skipped too. Example: Going from potato to sarge, bad, skips steps in process. Going from potato to woody then update woody to sarge, good, gets all of the right steps. Bob
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