Hi, this is already in discussion within a bug (#744280); however I think it is good to have the discussion a bit more general.
I have a source package (cpl-plugin-xsh) that creates three binary packages: cpl-plugin-xsh (the arch dependent binary) cpl-plugin-xsh-doc (the arch independent documentation and manpages) cpl-plugin-xsh-calib (an empty package that fetches some files from upstream) Now, upstream changed the name of the package source to "xshoo", and for consistency, I want to apply this change to the Debian packages. Therefore I have now a source package cpl-plugin-xshoo, which creates accordingly three binary packages with the same descriptions as above: cpl-plugin-xshoo cpl-plugin-xshoo-doc cpl-plugin-xshoo-calib Except this, nothing changed. The API of the package is identical to the one before. The files contained in cpl-plugin-(xsh|xshoo) and the files fetched by cpl-plugin-(xsh|xshoo)-calib are versioned and therefore do not conflict. The documentation packages contain manpages that actually do conflict. Question is now how to proceed: * how do I declare that the *source* package cpl-plugin-xshoo is just renamed from cpl-plugin-csh? * ho do I create a good transition? I thought of two ways: 1. Just create a new source package cpl-plugin-xshoo that creates the new cpl-plugin-xshoo* packages; set "Provides" and "Replaces" fields for all three binary packages, and a "Breaks" field for the -doc (because of the manpages). When they entered testing, manually remove all old cpl-plugin-xsh* source and binary packages 2. From the new source, create a soource package that is still named "cpl-plugin-xsh" that contains the new binary packages, and the old ones as transitional dependencies (cpl-plugin-xsh has a Depends: cpl-plugin-xshoo etc.) Once this entered testing, create a new source package cpl-plugin-xshoo that contains the cpl-plugin-xshoo packages. However, how do I declare then that the new source package just overtakes the old source package? I couldn't find anything about how to rename a *source* package in the refguide; maybe it would be a good idea to have something there? Best regards Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
