RE: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Jan-2000 Jordi wrote: > Hello! > > If you remember, I packaged tip (which made it into Potato this night), but > there was a namespace problem with it, as there is an net app with the same > name, although not included in Debian. > > Upstream maintainer decided to rename to NANO, so I need

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Jordi
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed (release > critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. Realize that the > new > package will be treated as a completely new package. Wow, but isn

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jan-2000 Jordi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed (release >> critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. Realize that the >> new >> package will be treated as a com

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:09:07PM +0100, Jordi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed > > (release critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. > > Realize that the new package

Re: Changing the name of a package.

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Darnell
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:29:26PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:09:07PM +0100, Jordi wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed > > > (release critical bug on ftp