Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-21 Thread أحمد المحمودي
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:28:13PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Also beside that the package manager might be a bit confused, it confuses > maybe the user who will see that his beloved package oldname will be removed > in an upgrade to a new version of debian! Its far better in this case to l

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:03, Ben Finney wrote: > When making a new release of a source package that renames one of its > binary packages, at http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> it > is asserted “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to > replace the old with the new one”

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Finney
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > > at http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> it is asserted > > “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to replace > > the old with the new one”. […] > > In other words: is the dummy transitional binar

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > When making a new release of a source package that renames one of its > binary packages, at http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> it > is asserted “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to > replace the old with the new one”. > >

Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy mentors, When making a new release of a source package that renames one of its binary packages, at http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> it is asserted “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to replace the old with the new one”. Is that still true of APT? Or does APT