Re: Updating the "ELPA Protocol"

[Stefan Kangas]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> One issue I have been told is the issue of renaming a package, so that
> package.el can transparently handle the rename.  That appears to not be
> supported.

How about using something like Debian's transitional packages, where you
replace the old package with an empty package that just depends on the
new package?  Would that work?