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Re: splitting a package?



On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:26:40AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> I have split up the zorp package to zorp, libzorp2 and zorp-pylib.
> Also renamed zorp-dev to libzorp2-dev.
> 
> Not uploaded it yet.
> 
> Please advice me on this. I have some questions, but there may be
> some issues that I did not think of, and maybe common errors.

Forgetting Conflicts/Replaces and dummy-packages (zorp-dev) for smooth
upgrades.

> Should I do something special when first uploading the packages?


> Is the name libzorp2 correct? It is a package containing libzorp.so.2 .
 
Yes, it is. See http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/
         cu andreas



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