On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:31:06PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > I am maintaining a package called mozilla-firefox-biofox. > Both ths source and the binary package have the same name. Biofox was > always released only to Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was not > supported. However, upstream author changed this now. Biofox supports > both navigators. > > I am planning to rename the source package to "biofox" only, instead > mozilla-firefox-biofox. > May I do this? How can I do this? Is it there some policy saying about > renaming a source package? Yes; its going to be a new package, that has to go through the NEW queue (right?) Its going to happen to be from the same upstream project as a soon-to-be old and removed package, though.
I think the recommendation is, in this type of case, to preserve the changelog in the new package, so you could have an entry such as: * Rename source to "biofox". ... > Right. Second problem now. > If I create two binary packages, one mozilla-firefox and another Huh? Surely that name is a mistake? :) mozilla-biobar? > mozilla-firefox-biobar, basically they will have the same files. > If I create only one package (maybe named "biofox" only), this package > will depends on mozilla | mozilla-firefox and I will put the files > inside Firefox dir, for example, and create links on Mozilla dir, > pointing to the files on the Firefox dir (to avoid duplicated files). Can't you just have a symlink pointing to a directory, instead of a real directory filled with a symlink farm? > Create 2 binary packages or just one, as I said? Just one, I think, because otherwise there are duplicate files in different packages, which smells bad, and there's the overhead of one more package. > If the one package only is the best thing to do, I must put a Replaces, > Conflicts and Provides, like this? > > Replaces: mozilla-firefox-biofox > Conflicts: mozilla-firefox-biofox > Provides: mozilla-firefox-biofox Yes, I think. It is late, though, so I had to look it up... -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
