On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:00:04 -0400, Rich Mattes 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. There have been other replies to this already, so I only want to point at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages -> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
