RE: Changing the name of a package.
On 10-Jan-2000 Jordi wrote:
> Hello!
>
> If you remember, I packaged tip (which made it into Potato this night), but
> there was a namespace problem with it, as there is an net app with the same
> name, although not included in Debian.
>
> Upstream maintainer decided to rename to NANO, so I need to change the
> package name now. I haven't seen anything about this procedure in the
> manual, so I don't know what to do so the installer knows it's an old
> package with a new name. Any clue?
>
> Ah, if anyone knows about any problem with the new name "nano", please tell
> me!
>
well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed (release
critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. Realize that the new
package will be treated as a completely new package.
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