Hi On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:43:49AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > I think renaming and updating reverse dependencies will be enough. It > will still have to go through NEW and once it clears, you will need > update reverse dependencies and request removal of old package. The new source package ruby-factory-bot will have to provide a ruby-factory-girl transitional package for the life cycle of the next stable release to ensure that the upgrade from stretch to buster will go smoothly for people who had ruby-factory-girl installed. The wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition has some discussion about the dependency packages should have (it's Scenario #5 I think). Cheers, Cédric
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