Re: Change of package name or command name.
Em Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:13:33 +0900
"Yooseong Yang" <yooseong@debian.org> escreveu:
> I have something wrong in my package(poedit) related to package name.
> Among thousands of debian packages, potool has the same command name - poedit - as
> my package command name. The source is absoultely different!
> In this case, should be the package name changed into another name?
> Is it possible that we just change the command name like poEdit (capital "E")
> or poeditor instead of poedit?
uh... I don't really know what would be the best option here... are
the packages for the same purpose? if yes I think it would be sane
to set alternatives.... if not just change the name of the command
line... maybe poeditor is good
> If I must change the package name, I just change the package name, rebuild it
> and then upload it? Is it correct? I am not sure about it. =)
no... you change the name, set a Provides: to make upgrades able to
happen well and then fill a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for
the old package remotion... (this is explained in developer's reference)
[]s!
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