Chris,
to make the transition it is needed to:
1) Change your source package so that it provides binaries named like those in
Debian. This is mainly in debian/control and some of the debhelper files
(install etc.). You can see this easily by diffing the ubuntu and debian
packages.
Note that the difference is just the removal of a dash (-) from the binary
names, eg:
Ubuntu: libgdamm-3.0-8
Debian: libgdamm3.0-8
2) Change all libgdamm dependencies of packages in hardy to point to the
new naming scheme. You can find these by using apt-cache with the
rdepends option:
apt-cache rdepends libgdamm-3.0-8 libgdamm-3.0-dev libgdamm-3.0-doc
libgdamm-3.0-dev
Reverse Depends:
libglom-dev
libgdamm-3.0-doc
Reverse Depends:
libgdamm-3.0-dev
libgdamm-3.0-8
Reverse Depends:
libglom0
libgdamm-3.0-dev
glom
So this is just the glom src package.
3) Add to your source package transitional packages to ease the
gutsy->hardy upgrade. These are dummy packages which just depends on the
right dependencies and eventually conflict/replace the old packages.
For example:
Package: libgdamm-3.0-9
Architecture: all
Depends: libgdamm3.0-9
Description: transitional package to new libgdamm naming scheme
This dummy package is provided to smooth the upgrade to the new libgdamm
naming scheme.
This package can be safely removed.
It is not the case here, but if there was a previous version of the same
package one should have added to the libgdamm3.0-9 stanza in
debian/control:
Conflicts: libgdamm-3.0-9 (<< ${source:Version})
Replaces: libgdamm-3.0-9 (<< ${source:Version})
4) Request the removal of the old ubuntu packages from the archive
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Request: Upgrade libgdamm3.0 to upstream version 2.9.81
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190744
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