On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:00:04AM -0400, Rich Mattes wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:22:32 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > > > For a package changing name, a package re-review is needed. So this needs > > > to have a maintainer(s) who have the time to go through the package > > rename > > > process to fix it up. > > > > Subpackages may be renamed without a re-review. There are enough packages > > that _end_ with -python, e.g. xmms2-python is a Python module. > > > > 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. You would want to _both_ provide the older package name _and_ obsolete that old package. -- Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx> http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"
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