Re: Renaming a package

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:

> Maybe, the fact that APT tries to not remove any of your currently
> installed packages during an upgrade.

kay, I was under the false impression this worked.
 
> There is not a "standard" to make a package to disappear, but there is
> something you can do to ensure that "apt-get upgrade" works: Just make
> emacs-goodies-extra-el a dummy (empty) package which depends on
> emacs-goodies-el, and make debbugs-el a dummy package which depends on
> debian-el. Make them of extra priority and section oldlibs. Remove the
> conflicts, so that these packages are actually installed.

I'm very glad I asked on this list.  Many thanks!
(makes me wonder if I should kill the extra package, considering it will
live on anyway)

Thanks!
Peter