Re: Package name change
Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net> wrote:
>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.
Plus Provides: foo if anybody depended on the package by its old name.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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