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


I See.. I think I will stick to the "old" package name and structure then.

Thank you for anwering.

> 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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