> 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'? Otherwise, the new (renamed) upstream version > could be easily overlooked and the users would just wonder why the > old package is removed from the archives.
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 apt-get upgrade will get the latest (empty) foo and thus drag in newfoo with it. Of course you should take this with disclaimers because I'm just going on what I think I remember seeing from past upgrades on my own machine. Ben. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee Feminism... is about a social, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbian. - Pat Robertson, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, 1988