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Re: Package name change



On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:04:45PM +0200, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> What is the proposed handling of a package whose name has changed?
> (e.g.: the author of foo-0.1.tar.gz, Debian package foo_0.1-1_i386.deb, 
> changes the name of the package to bar-0.2.tar.gz)
> 
> The only thing which comes to my mind is treating the old package
> as 'conflict' for the new one, but there must be a more elegant
> solution!?

Michael,
Use Conflicts: foo, and Replaces: foo.

:) d

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Daniel Stone		<daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net> <daniel@kabuki.sfarc.net>



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