Re: renaming source package
Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> Upstream maintainership of a package of mine changed from the old author
> to a new one. New upstream maintainer decided to change the source name
> of the package and thus the tarball name.
>
> How can I handle such a change? The simplest approach seems to be to
> keep the currend debian source package name and just release a "new
> upstream release" version of the package. Actually I haven't yet tried
> and I don't know if uupdate permits that, but in case it doesn't I can
> simply rename the tarball.
>
> The other approach is to ask for removal of the old source package and
> upload a new one which generates the same binary packages. This seems to
> be the best approach but I'm a bit scared about the transition phase ...
> would it be possible to upload the new package before the old one is
> removed?
>
> TIA,
> Cheers.
Just upload the new one. Both sources will be there since they don't
conflict. In the binary packages (if you rename any of them) set
Conflicts/Replaces/Provides.
Don't request removal of the old package untill _all_ architectures
have build the new package. Best wait for it to enter sarge so sid and
sarge can be cleaned up together.
MfG
Goswin
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