Renaming the package and other things
Hi!
I am maintaining a package called mozilla-firefox-biofox.
Both ths source and the binary package have the same name. Biofox was
always released only to Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was not
supported. However, upstream author changed this now. Biofox supports
both navigators.
I am planning to rename the source package to "biofox" only, instead
mozilla-firefox-biofox.
May I do this? How can I do this? Is it there some policy saying about
renaming a source package?
Right. Second problem now.
If I create two binary packages, one mozilla-firefox and another
mozilla-firefox-biobar, basically they will have the same files.
If I create only one package (maybe named "biofox" only), this package
will depends on mozilla | mozilla-firefox and I will put the files
inside Firefox dir, for example, and create links on Mozilla dir,
pointing to the files on the Firefox dir (to avoid duplicated files).
Maybe there are other alternatives, but what is the best thing to do?
Create 2 binary packages or just one, as I said?
If the one package only is the best thing to do, I must put a Replaces,
Conflicts and Provides, like this?
Replaces: mozilla-firefox-biofox
Conflicts: mozilla-firefox-biofox
Provides: mozilla-firefox-biofox
So, user will upgrade to "biofox" properly (if I am not making some
mistakes), right?
I hope that I was clear trying to explain my doubt :-)
Thank you very much!
Nelson
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