On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:00:04 -0400 Rich Mattes <richmattes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I wanted to fix up some old packages that use the > packagename-python convention, would the best way to go about this be > to Provide the old module name when switching to the new name? If a > package foo-python is a subpackage of foo, and I wanted to change it > to python-foo, I should: > > %package -n python-foo > Provides: foo-python > > Or would it be better to obsolete the foo-python package? I think the > first is better since it allows the old package to be updated to the > new package name, and after a couple releases the line providing the > old package name could be removed. It should obsolete the foo-python package from the start. Otherwise the old package isn't updated to the new package name. Then after a couple of releases you can remove the obsolete and the provides. -- Susi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
