[Pkg-electronics-devel] verilog & covered on debian mentors

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 00:52:25 أحمد المحمودي wrote:
>   I just realized that if a user has verilog installed, it won't be
>   updated if we rename the package to iverilog, the solution would be
>   adding a dummy transitional package called "verilog" that would depend
>   on "iverilog", but then, what would be the point of renaming the
>   package if we do this ?
>
>   I hope to hear your opinions please.

I think the general idea is that you leave the dummy transitional package 
around for long enough for users to be able to upgrade transparently (e.g. 
one release) then nuke it.
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