Gergely Budai wrote: > I have noticed that other packages depend on libgpg-error and on libgcrypt. > Do they get problems if I change the rumtime package name from (e.g) > libgpg-error to libgpg-errorX?
Yes that's a problem. It would break all the dependencies. How would they know otherwise? To rename a package what you must do is maintain a dummy package of the old name whose sole function is to "require:" the package of the new name. The dummy package should be in "category: _obsolete" and should have an empty .tar.bz2 binary tarball, meaning you must bump its version number and "release" a new version of it to force installation of it to any users that currently have it installed. Brian
