[csw-maintainers] Packaged CSWmailx. How to obsolete CSWnail?

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 06:59:54PM +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> Am 21.05.2009 um 18:35 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
>> i packaged mailx that was formerly known as nail (CSWnail). Now how
>> would we go about obsoleting CSWnail? Just drop it from the catalog, 
>> let
>> CSWnail become an empty package that pulls in CSWmailx and somehow
>> deletes CSWnail, or is there another preferred (proven) way of doing
>> things like this?
>
> I vaguely recall pkg-get has some magic included that does this kind
> of thing on making new packages incompatible ("I") with prior ones.
> Phil?

yes. the only magic is that you have to get users to upgrade from "nail" to
the new package name.
You can either do it in two stages, doin the 
  "empty package that pulls in mailx", then in a few,months, switching it
  and making mailx conflict.
OR, you can just start out with the conflict, and send out an announcement
that users of 'nail' need to switch.