Yes is there someone with more knowledge on this who could say what the
right procedure is for this case? If I do need to use a different name
package name, would I at least be able to have 'Provides: vault' in it?
I don't think there's a precedent yet for this package in other Linux
distros so I would try to get an agreement with upstream on what the
packaged name should be.
I did find that someone else has begun working on Fedora packaging for
this, in
https://pagure.io/vault-stack-fedora/blob/master/f/vault
Dave
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 08:59:13AM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel wrote:
> Il 24/02/20 23:12, Dave Dykstra ha scritto:
> > I made a ticket (bug #1806737) for the maintainer of the existing vault
> > package in Fedora to see if he'd be willing to give it up so it can be
> > used for Hashicorp vault (https://vaultproject.io ) and he decided to
> > mark it EOL so I could claim it.
> >
> > Dave
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I don't think it is allowed to reuse the git repo (and the name) of a
> retired package for a completely different one, even if their name it's
> the same...
>
> In my opinion you should file a review ticket for the new package with a
> name which avoid present and future conflicts, the name 'vault' is just
> too generic:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Naming/#_conflicting_package_names
>
> Maybe someone with more knowledge here can tell you the right procedure
> for this case.
>
> Mattia
>
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