Re: Appropriate transition from iep to pyzo

[Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org>]

Hi Ghislain,

simply let the source package of pyzo build a transitional dummy package
with the name iep.
See https://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package

Best,
Tobias

On 05/13/2016 10:52 AM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am the package maintainer of iep and pyzo, two Python IDEs targeted
> the scientific audience. Pyzo is the official successor of iep, meaning
> the latter won't be maintained upstream anymore in favour of the
> former. In terms of version numbers, the upstream developers started
> Pyzo (now at 4.1) where iep stopped (3.7).
> 
> I wanted to get your opinion on how to best handle the transition from
> iep to pyzo. I would like everyone currently using iep to automatically
> transit to pyzo via a package update, so that I can safely ask iep to
> be removed from the archive.
> 
> Does it sound sensible? feasible? Any advice on how to proceed?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ghislain
>