Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Gregor Jasny writes: > I'm the maintainer of the libv4l package. It produces two binary > packages: libv4l-0 and libv4l-dev. > With the latest release upstream decided to rename it to v4l-utils and > add some utilities. > To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to > v4l

Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:57:07 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to > >> v4l-utils. > >> But what actions do I have to take to take to replace libv4l with > >> v4l-utils in the archive? > > http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package > I

Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-02 11:14 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:10:59 +0100, Gregor Jasny wrote: > >> To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to >> v4l-utils. >> But what actions do I have to take to take to replace libv4l with >> v4l-utils in the archive? > >

Re: What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:10:59 +0100, Gregor Jasny wrote: > To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to v4l-utils. > But what actions do I have to take to take to replace libv4l with > v4l-utils in the archive? http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package Cheers, gregor --

What to do if the source name of a package changes

2010-03-02 Thread Gregor Jasny
Hello, I'm the maintainer of the libv4l package. It produces two binary packages: libv4l-0 and libv4l-dev. With the latest release upstream decided to rename it to v4l-utils and add some utilities. To be consistent with upstream I changes the package source name to v4l-utils. But what actions do

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Darnell
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:29:26PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:09:07PM +0100, Jordi wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed > > > (release critical bug on ftp

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:09:07PM +0100, Jordi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed > > (release critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. > > Realize that the new package

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jan-2000 Jordi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed (release >> critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. Realize that the >> new >> package will be treated as a com

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Jordi
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed (release > critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. Realize that the > new > package will be treated as a completely new package. Wow, but isn

RE: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Jan-2000 Jordi wrote: > Hello! > > If you remember, I packaged tip (which made it into Potato this night), but > there was a namespace problem with it, as there is an net app with the same > name, although not included in Debian. > > Upstream maintainer decided to rename to NANO, so I need

Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-10 Thread Jordi
Hello! If you remember, I packaged tip (which made it into Potato this night), but there was a namespace problem with it, as there is an net app with the same name, although not included in Debian. Upstream maintainer decided to rename to NANO, so I need to change the package name now. I haven't

Re: Name of a package

1998-05-01 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 05:34:16PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > You are free to call it what you want. In this case iplogger is how > most people expect to see it anyway. Right. If you decide to call it iplogger-ident you should make it Replace, Conflict and Provides iplogger. Regards, Joey

Re: Name of a package

1998-05-01 Thread Shaleh
You are free to call it what you want. In this case iplogger is how most people expect to see it anyway. Hugo Haas wrote: > > Hi. > > The new upstream maintainer of iplogger has released the new version > using the name iplogger-ident 1.1 (because the difference between > version 1.0 and 1.1 is

Name of a package

1998-05-01 Thread Hugo Haas
Hi. The new upstream maintainer of iplogger has released the new version using the name iplogger-ident 1.1 (because the difference between version 1.0 and 1.1 is the presence of an identity check function). Anyway, I consider this new version as being iplogger 1.1, and the author just wants to un