On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 07:50:52PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: > * Anuradha Weeraman <anura...@debian.org> [2021-09-11 21:37]: > https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages has a few good suggestions. > Maybe the transition package method would be appropriate here? > You could probably put the transitional package into the new source > package and use "dh_gencontrol --package=ksh -v20210511" in d/rules > to make it supersede the old binary package and ensure a clean > upgrade path.
Thank you for this pointer. The transition package method does seem like a good way forward in this case and I will look into this approach. I think this addresses the original question on the epoch bump. Thank you all for your inputs. Anuradha
