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codestation / vitamtp

Library to interact with Vita's USB MTP protocol (No longer maintained)
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debian: rename vitamtp{4,-dev} packages to libvitamtp* #4

Closed a-detiste closed 9 years ago

a-detiste commented 9 years ago

In most case, a library package name should match it's soname. The binary package name doesn't need to be identical to the source package name

Example: mesa gives libgl* https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mesa.html

I've tested this upgrade on my own repository I built with reprepro and installation went fine https://gist.github.com/a-detiste/67815ac02a71d45afa1e http://ssh.detiste.be/

codestation commented 9 years ago

Seems like a good change but i still have to test how a name change wll affect the upgrade from previous users since the old package and the new one with have a conflict on all the installed files.

a-detiste commented 9 years ago

conflict on all the installed files

apt-get or aptitude would handle that automaticaly;

Conflicts: vitamtp4
Replaces: vitamtp4

If a user install from time to time with manual download + dpkg -i; dpkg is more low level and will complain.

codestation commented 9 years ago

Gonna go with case nº5 for the transition, so i will be creating a transitional package for those who are upgrading from the old version in the ubuntu ppa.

a-detiste commented 9 years ago

Thanks, :+1: that's great.

The transitional package is only usefull to co-oridinate complex transitions that impacats many packages (like libjpeg) or if there are other package outside of your ppa that depends on vitamtp4; that I can't know (original openCMA ?) & in anyway this extraneous package wouldn't hurt.

https://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package Here simplest method 1 will work: new qcma package will pull up libvitamtp4 automatically & that will remove automatically installed vitamtp4 (the Provides: is not necessary, as the new qcmahas the right Depends:)