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Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager
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explore replace_requires references adjustements #16443

Open memsharded opened 3 weeks ago

memsharded commented 3 weeks ago

Changelog: Feature: Allow [replace_requires] to replace the package name and self.dependencies still works with the old name. Docs: Omit

Close https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/16399

This is still an idea, need more research and there are pending things to fix like self.cpp_info.requires references