On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:24:03AM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Hello maintainers, > > I'm maintaining the package guichan, which is missing in the current 0.7.1 > upstream release any kind of SONAME support. > Now the upstream of guichan said to me, that he will add it to the next > release. > > What have I to do if upstream provides it? > Currently guichan in 0.7.1 has rdepends, so it would be good, if the old > package could be in the pool first, too. > > Should I change in control the Source name of the package then for example > to 0.8 and the packagename itself to libguichan0.8 or have I to do more > things?
The source packaeg name is completely irrelevant to this. What you need is a binary package named correctly and having the needed conflicts against the old package if needed. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
