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. It makes sense to follow upstream here. The process is documented here[1]. I'd inform the cloud WG, because they might be interested ;-) Matthias [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Renaming_Process -- Matthias Runge <mrunge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
