Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:04:45PM +0200, Michael Wiedmann wrote: >> What is the proposed handling of a package whose name has changed? >> (e.g.: the author of foo-0.1.tar.gz, Debian package foo_0.1-1_i386.deb, >> changes the name of the package to bar-0.2.tar.gz) >> >> The only thing which comes to my mind is treating the old package >> as 'conflict' for the new one, but there must be a more elegant >> solution!? > >Michael, >Use Conflicts: foo, and Replaces: foo.
Plus Provides: foo if anybody depended on the package by its old name. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]