Upstream maintainership of a package of mine changed from the old author to a new one. New upstream maintainer decided to change the source name of the package and thus the tarball name.
How can I handle such a change? The simplest approach seems to be to keep the currend debian source package name and just release a "new upstream release" version of the package. Actually I haven't yet tried and I don't know if uupdate permits that, but in case it doesn't I can simply rename the tarball. The other approach is to ask for removal of the old source package and upload a new one which generates the same binary packages. This seems to be the best approach but I'm a bit scared about the transition phase ... would it be possible to upload the new package before the old one is removed? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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