Re: good way to change a name of a package
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've maintained ttf-mathematica4.1 but it was obsolete
> now (for MathML and for Mathematica also) but someone has
> requested me to keep maintenance of a package for Mathematica
> fonts.
>
> I've not so good motivation for it but I build a new package
> for Mathematica fonts named mathematica-fonts which installs
> the latest type1, ttf Mathematica fonts which could be useful
> for a Mathematica user from remote terminal.
>
> In this situation, is it enough for me to upload a new
> mathematica-fonts package (as only version up) or is there
> anything I should do before uploading?
>
> I think an obsolete ttf-mathematica4.1 is very annoying for Debian
> and it should be replaced with mathematica-fonts or removed
> completely as soon as possible.
>
Hi there,
If I understood correctly, you could add a new package entry declaring
ttf-mathematica as dummy package with a dependency on mathematica-fonts,
and mathematica-fonts with replaces, provides and conflicts to ttf-mathematica.
(Note that these fields should be compared to the latest version of ttf-math).
Here's an example of how to do that:
http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package
Regards
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