Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-06 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hello, On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > Hi.. I've never done this myself, but I'm sure I've seen it happen in the > past: If you're replacing foo with newfoo, you upload a new dummy package > foo that contains absolutely nothing, but depends on newfoo. This way >

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread David Whedon
> Thanks, - I know this and have done it previously in the case of > zicq and krolden. However, what I really wanted to know is, how > this (or any other) procedure can take care that the users of the > old package will get the renamed package automatically updated with > 'apt-get upgrade'? Oh,

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Burton
> Thanks, - I know this and have done it previously in the case of > zicq and krolden. However, what I really wanted to know is, how > this (or any other) procedure can take care that the users of the > old package will get the renamed package automatically updated with > 'apt-get upgrade'? Other

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:39:48PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > This is discussed in the Developer's Reference [1]: > > 9.3 Replacing or renaming packages > > Sometimes you made a mistake naming the package and you need to rename it. In > this case, you need to follow a two-step process. Fir

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:39:48PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:43:30PM +0200 wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem > > with the new upstream version. The package and program has been > > renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, be

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread David Whedon
Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:43:30PM +0200 wrote: > Hello, > > I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem > with the new upstream version. The package and program has been > renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, because there was a conflict > with another program named puzzle. > I was co

how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hello, I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem with the new upstream version. The package and program has been renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, because there was a conflict with another program named puzzle. I was considering to make a new package tree-puzzle which conflicts