From cesare.falco at gmail.com  Sat Jan 16 16:49:13 2010
From: cesare.falco at gmail.com (Cesare Falco)
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:49:13 +0100
Subject: Package rename and new target from third-party patches
Message-ID: <1263660553.3110.8.camel@beltade.wallyweek.org>

Hello everyone,

a package I'm actually maintaining (sdlmame) needs renaming with the
next version.

How can I make this trasparent to the users? A meta-package would do the
trick?

Also, from the same source (Mame) I should also build a new binary,
patching the code with some .diff file to be downloaded from elsewhere.

What's the best practice I should use? Maybe something like a
mame-source package which make build-depend the binary packages from?

Thanks in advance,
Cesare.




From a.starr.b at gmail.com  Sat Jan 16 18:56:36 2010
From: a.starr.b at gmail.com (Andrew SB)
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:56:36 -0500
Subject: Package rename and new target from third-party patches
In-Reply-To: <1263660553.3110.8.camel@beltade.wallyweek.org>
References: <1263660553.3110.8.camel@beltade.wallyweek.org>
Message-ID: <a41bb2f81001161056t1ae40d9aiec650043191fe578@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Cesare Falco <cesare.falco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> a package I'm actually maintaining (sdlmame) needs renaming with the
> next version.
>
> How can I make this trasparent to the users? A meta-package would do the
> trick?

Generally, a transitional dummy package, depending on the new package,
is used. See:

http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package

- Andrew SB


