Re: RFC: Upstream author renamed his software
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:18:26PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
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> > > Use apropiate Conflics, Provides, Replaces fields in control file. See,
> > > for example, gnome-system-tools package.
>
> > I did this in a much more roundabout way (as described in my other message
> > in this thread.) for some reason but right now in my sleep-addled state, I
> > can't remember why.
>
> Conflicts/Replaces/Provides doesn't make packages upgrade automatically
> with "apt-get dist-upgrade".
>
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> I have thought iiwusynth (fluidsynth) is a library package, so it won't matter
> very much, but I haven't been closely watching it, so I might be
> outdated or wrong or both.
>
Well, it actually is a binary package (iiwusynth) + library package
(libiiwusynth1) + dev package (libiiwusynth-dev).
So people could feel lost. Especially those who write applications / maintain
packages depending on libiiwusynth1.
Please CC me on reply.
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Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
ericvb@debian.org
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