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Re: [ITA, RFU] libgpg-error 1.6-1
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: Gergely Budai <thuffir at gmx dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:34:41 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ITA, RFU] libgpg-error 1.6-1
- References: <000001c88239$1797a4e0$28bfae05@cyberdyne>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
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