Hi Ghislain, simply let the source package of pyzo build a transitional dummy package with the name iep. See https://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package
Best, Tobias On 05/13/2016 10:52 AM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Dear all, > > I am the package maintainer of iep and pyzo, two Python IDEs targeted > the scientific audience. Pyzo is the official successor of iep, meaning > the latter won't be maintained upstream anymore in favour of the > former. In terms of version numbers, the upstream developers started > Pyzo (now at 4.1) where iep stopped (3.7). > > I wanted to get your opinion on how to best handle the transition from > iep to pyzo. I would like everyone currently using iep to automatically > transit to pyzo via a package update, so that I can safely ask iep to > be removed from the archive. > > Does it sound sensible? feasible? Any advice on how to proceed? > > Many thanks, > Ghislain >
