Re: Changing name of source package
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:04:47PM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> I just want to double check that changing the name of a source package
> can be done as I anticipate it.
> I would like to change the name of the source package php4-ps into
> php-ps. php4-ps creates two binary packages php4-ps and php5-ps.
> The new source package php-ps will only create php5-ps because
> php4 will be dropped anyway in the near future.
> From what I have read so far, it should be sufficient to upload the
> new source package which takes over the binary package php5-ps.
> Is it required to wait for a new upstream version or can I simply
> push up the debian version from 1.3.5-1 to 1.3.5-2?
The only other thing you need to worry about is filing a bug report against
ftp.debian.org to get the old php4-ps source package removed, since this
won't happen automatically.
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