Re: SONAME support
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:24:03AM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Hello maintainers,
>
> I'm maintaining the package guichan, which is missing in the current 0.7.1
> upstream release any kind of SONAME support.
> Now the upstream of guichan said to me, that he will add it to the next
> release.
>
> What have I to do if upstream provides it?
> Currently guichan in 0.7.1 has rdepends, so it would be good, if the old
> package could be in the pool first, too.
>
> Should I change in control the Source name of the package then for example
> to 0.8 and the packagename itself to libguichan0.8 or have I to do more
> things?
The source packaeg name is completely irrelevant to this. What you need
is a binary package named correctly and having the needed conflicts against
the old package if needed.
Cheers,
Michael
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