Re: best way to fork data only package on Alioth?
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:
> ...
Your mail doesn't include which package/data you are talking. It is
very hard to give you correct advice when we aren't being given the
necessary information about the situation we are responding to.
> I want to create a new package that is identical to the old one except
> that 1) the name of the package is changed. 2) the data files and their
> names are changed.
What is the reason for wanting the new package? It sounds unnecessary.
> Would it be a reasonable way to proceed to fork the old package?
Create a meta-package depending on the old package and containing
symlinks to the old data files.
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pabs
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