Hello, On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > 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.
Many thanks. That is probably the best solution currently possible. I will do it this way, and will request the removal of the dummy package from the archives after a sufficiently long transition period. Cheers, Guenter -- Linux: Who needs GATES in a world without fences?