Re: package name change (moviemate -> mediamate)
This one time, at band camp, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>you should Conflict, Replace, and provide MovieMate. This will ensure a
>smooth transition. You instead (may) want to upload a package called
>moviemate which is a dummy package that depends on MediaMate.
You should do both, with the Conflict/Replace versioned to match all versions
earlier than this one, for the smoothest transition.
Take it from someone who suffered various forms of dependency bugs by
trying the minimum amount of effort required to properly change package
names. See the glut source package control file for more details.
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