Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.0 Severity: wishlist Hello, this started at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00309.html. On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:27:02 +0200, Frank S. Thomas wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2008 18:22, Christian Perrier wrote: >> Quoting Luca Capello (luca@pca.it): >>> As explained at [1], I'm in the process of renaming the binary package >>> cl-hunchentoot to hunchentoot to more closely follow upstream. Since >>> cl-hunchentoot is not in Etch, if I'm not wrong the new transitional >>> package can be dropped as soon as Lenny is released. >>> >>> I'll proceed in the following way for debian/control: rename >>> cl-hunchentoot to hunchentoot and then create the transitional binary >>> package cl-hunchentoot which depends on hunchentoot. >>> >>> Is this OK? Do I need something else? >> >> IMHO, once you get a complete answer, adding this to the DevRef >> (assuming it is not already there) could be a good idea. > > BTW, there is also http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package FWIW I followed method A and at least locally it worked. As Christian, I think this information should be included in the DevRef: the necessary steps are already there, but nothing specific about conflict versions. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash developers-reference depends on no packages. Versions of packages developers-reference recommends: ii debian-policy 3.8.0.1 Debian Policy Manual and related d -- no debconf information
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