Subject: Re: difficulty from renaming packages, and how to deal
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/07/2007 10:10:17
How do people feel about the following change?  The idea is to enable
programs (and humans) dealing with upgrades to know what to do about a
"Removed" package.  The following two removals have obvious successor
packages that one should switch to on upgrading.  My thought is that "
successor $PKGPATH" is optional, and included when it's reasonable for
an automated update to replace the removed package with the named
successor.


Index: CHANGES-2007
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/doc/CHANGES-2007,v
retrieving revision 1.2334
diff -u -p -r1.2334 CHANGES-2007
--- CHANGES-2007	7 Nov 2007 14:02:05 -0000	1.2334
+++ CHANGES-2007	7 Nov 2007 14:53:59 -0000
@@ -3413,7 +3413,7 @@ Changes to the packages collection and i
 	Added fonts/inconsolata-ttf version 20070822 [smb 2007-08-22]
 	Updated textproc/ispell-russian to 0.99g4 [mishka 2007-08-22]
 	Updated textproc/ispell-russian-io to 0.99g4 [mishka 2007-08-22]
-	Removed archivers/rar-bin [jlam 2007-08-22]
+	Removed archivers/rar-bin successor archivers/rar [jlam 2007-08-22]
 	Added databases/yap2lc version 0.5.9 [tron 2007-08-22]
 	Removed misc/xorg-dirs [joerg 2007-08-23]
 	Updated x11/xfce4-terminal to 0.2.6nb1 [martti 2007-08-23]
@@ -4271,7 +4271,7 @@ Changes to the packages collection and i
 	Updated security/p5-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.12 [wiz 2007-11-01]
 	Updated www/curl to 7.17.1 [wiz 2007-11-01]
 	Updated graphics/gimp to 2.4.1 [adam 2007-11-01]
-	Removed graphics/gimp24 [adam 2007-11-01]
+	Removed graphics/gimp24 successor graphics/gimp [adam 2007-11-01]
 	Updated x11/py-gnome2 to 2.20.0 [drochner 2007-11-01]
 	Updated x11/py-gtk2 to 2.12.0 [drochner 2007-11-01]
 	Updated devel/py-gobject to 2.14.0 [drochner 2007-11-01]