On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:54:49 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 09/12/2013 10:40 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: > > > I just posted a review for avl (the Aerodynamic and flight-dynamic > > analysis of rigid aircrafts package) [1], and the reviewer noticed that > > it conflicts with the retired avl package (the AVL tree manipulation > > library). How should one proceed in such situations? Does the old > > repository needs to be deleted before the new one is created? > > Please do not reuse package names for unrelated software. It is quite > confusing and can interfere with all kinds of tracking/package mapping > efforts. That could be documented. It would be wrong for an old retired (!) "avl" to block that component name forever. What if that project has been abandoned or renamed? I can't reach the old git.fruit.je/avl currently, but the README in the old F14 package calls it "AVLTREE", "AVLTree" and "AVL-Tree library", and the Fedora src.rpm uses the libavl source tarball from Debian. => It could (should?) have been named "libavl" or "avltree". Again related to the General Naming Guidelines, FPC ticket #336. If the AVL-Tree project were still alive, what would happen in a new package review request at Fedora? Would a different pair of submitter and reviewer approve the same "avl" as "libavl"? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
