Malte Forkel wrote: > I'm writing a transitional package to handle a software name change. The > transitional package 'depends' on the new package. So during an upgrade, > the new package is installed automatically and marked accordingly. But > once the user decides to purge the transitional package, the new > packaged would be removed as well.
I have run into that problem too but have not investigated the proper solution. I do not know the proper solution. I would think debian-mentors would be the best place to hold the discussion of how to do that upgrade package. It is a common problem and so I would expect that a standard solution would already exist for it. But the apt feature is new and therefore it may not be fully cooked yet. It would definitely be something I would discuss fully first before resorting to a hack. But sometimes the only way is to resort to a hack and there is precedence for hacks for such things in the package maintainer scripts. Bob
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