On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:02:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > No, there is no difference between our apps and the upstream in most > > cases. We do brand gnome-core and gdm, but those are the only packages > > I can think of offhand. Those are only graphics changes, substituting > > some of our images in place of the defaults. > > Okay, fine. Name the Helixified packages under the following scheme: > > Package: helix-gnome-core > Conflicts: gnome-core > Provides: gnome-core > > Package: helix-gdm > Conflicts: gdm > Provides: gdm > > (The Provides: gdm isn't necessary if nothing depends on it, and off the > top of my head I can't think of anything that would depend on a display > manager.) > > You can then version helix-gnome-core and helix-gdm however you see fit. > I'm not in any position to guarantee this, but I think Debian can agree to > cede this part of our packaging namespace to you. You may then, on these > packages, violate our version numbering conventions to your heart's > content.
That is one mechanism of creating a private namespace, isn't another Setting the origin to something other than Debian? I'm not familiar with the gritty details of creating Package(.gz) files. Anand
