Re: renaming a package
This one time, at band camp, Santiago Vila wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> I intend to rename the glut packages from
>> glutg3
>> glutg3-dev
>> to
>> libglut3
>> libglut-dev
>> to follow the convention for library package naming.
>>
>> So in the control file, I've specified that libglut3 Conflicts and Replaces
>> glutg3 for versions <= 3.7-15, and created a glutg3 package with no content,
>> that depends on libglut3. I've done similar for glutg3-dev and libglut-dev.
>>
>> Does anyone have any comments or suggestions about this plan? Does it suck,
>> is there a better way to do it and still provide a smooth upgrade, so
>> developers depending on the glut libraries aren't shafted?
>
>Go ahead. Actually, there is not a better way using available dpkg fields.
Cool, thanks.
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