On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 00:04 +0200, Federico Hernandez wrote: > Hi! > > This is not yet happening, but the upstream project wants to do a > rename and release several "binaries" under the new project name. The > current binary and package is one of them: clip > What are the procedures for this? Formal and technical ones? In > particular regarding the "updates". How can I make the old package be > superseeded by the new package. Have a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages To make the change the new package must get reviewed, just open up a new Review Request as Rename Review: foobar - an app to do bar. After the review has been approved you can request a cvs branch for the renamed package and mark the old cvs branch dead. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
