Re: RFC: Upstream author renamed his software
Richard Braakman wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Isn't this the problem that a combination of Conflicts and Replaces
> is supposed to solve? dselect should automatically recommend replacing
> the old package with the new package, without any dummy packages being
> involved.
No, a Conflicts and Replaces just ensures that if you install the new
package, the old one is removed, but does not tell dselect to automatically
select the new package. That's why, in general, a dummy package should
be created every time a package changes its name.
If this is not in policy yet, it should be.
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