upstream wants me to rename my package

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Sun Sep 9 08:22:12 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 02:03 -0400, Gary Gatling wrote:
> 
> " ...a user may be using the
> distribution-supplied version for day-to-day work, but they may need
> to install a pre-release to test a new fix, or to temporarily use a
> pre-release until a fix is deployed via YUM.  It would be nice for
> them to be able to do that without uninstalling the
> distribution-supplied version.  Also, the distribution-supplied
> version may support features (such as OpenSSL) that we don't build
> into the official binaries." ?

I would say that his version removes the yum one, so someone can test
the bugfix and in case of problem yum downgrade/yum history undo...
That shouldn't be a big deal.

Pierre


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