Process for retiring a subpackage

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-03-17 07:04, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Per previous discussion on this list, I'm planning on retiring the
> separate packaging of Bash completion scripts in the packages I
> maintain, and folding the files into the main package.  I can't find any
> documentation that'll hold my hand through that process, so can somebody
> with the relevant arcane knowledege check my understanding of what's
> necessary?
>
> Taking git-completion as an example, where I'm moving all the contents
> from that package into the main git package:
>
> - For the first release that obsoletes git-completion:
>
>    - Create the main git package in such a way that it contains the files
>      that would previously have been in git-completion.
>
>    - Create a dummy git-completion package that:

Simpler:

git_OBSOLETES="git-completion"

Just leave this in indefinitely.

-- 
Yaakov