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Re: [ITA, RFU] libgpg-error 1.6-1


Gergely Budai wrote:

> I have noticed that other packages depend on libgpg-error and on libgcrypt.
> Do they get problems if I change the rumtime package name from (e.g)
> libgpg-error to libgpg-errorX?

Yes that's a problem.  It would break all the dependencies.  How would
they know otherwise?  To rename a package what you must do is maintain a
dummy package of the old name whose sole function is to "require:" the
package of the new name.  The dummy package should be in "category:
_obsolete" and should have an empty .tar.bz2 binary tarball, meaning you
must bump its version number and "release" a new version of it to force
installation of it to any users that currently have it installed.

Brian


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