Bug#807441: rename procedure out of date
Source: developers-reference
Severity: normal
The procedure documented here is badly out of date:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#s5.9.3
Among other things, it does not mention dummy packages and imposes
unnecessary load on FTP masters.
The procedure here seems to be a little more up to date:
https://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package
Maybe the two should be merged? At the very least, it should be
mentionned that leaf binary packages *do* need a dummy package
otherwise they will not be updated properly.
#486368 is similar, but since it's only asking for an example, i think
this is a different issue: the documentation there is not only
lacking, it's incorrect.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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