The desired organization of a software component can change because of mistakes in the original packages, changes in the product or its usage over time, or changes in the surrounding software environment. Sometimes just the name of a package needs to change. When planning such changes, consider the user who is performing an upgrade, to ensure that unintended side effects do not occur.
Three types of package reorganization are discussed in this section, in order of increasingly complex considerations for pkg update:
Renaming single packages
Merging two packages
Splitting a package