Re: Renaming a package

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:

> also sprach Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> [2006.05.29.2122 +0200]:
>> I think the usual way is to provide the dummy binary package
>> immediately from the new source package and file a bug for removal
>> of the old source package.
>
> Sounds like a clean approach, but is there a clean transition?
> I doubt you can upload a source package that generates the same
> binary package as another source package.

You can as long as the version is higher.

Overrides need adjusting but you are in the NEW queue anyway.

MfG
        Goswin