On 2021-05-26 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 19:43:21 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > I'd probably instead make this a versioned Provides, so that the > transitional package can be removed right away from systems, it does > not interfere with the transition, and people can switch to the new > package in parallel w/o disruption.
Hello, Why not use a versioned Provides *instead* of the dummy package? We have had these a long time our packagment management system should have 100% support now. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'