If upstream (in this case ubuntu) renamed it totally makes sense to rename. As for the rpm implications I believe you: 1) notify the list package(s) renaming 2) add the appropriate Obsoletes tag in the new packages That's it I think? someone else may want to weigh in tho. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:18:30PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out if it makes sense to rename the cloud-utils (sub-) > package for EPEL7 and F21. > > Upstream (Ubuntu) used to have a single package named cloud-utils which we > decided to split up into two packages, cloud-utils and cloud-utils-growpart. > The reason being that cloud-utils pulls in a lot of additional packages which > is sub-optimal for cloud images. > > Now Ubuntu followed suit and provides cloud-guest-utils and cloud-image-utils > sub-packages. My question is if we should align with Ubuntu and rename our > packages or stick with what we have? > > I admit I'm ignorant to all the ramifications of renaming a package but from a > user's perspective it's definitely a benefit if package names match across > distros. > > Thanks > ...Juerg > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- ~kad
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