On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:07:24AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> Sorry, I forgot to reply to this. This was discussed on the thread
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/179185.html
> a while ago. The general sense was that we would function as above. I
> then promptly forgot that the package review hadn't yet been finished
> for python-django14.
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> I'm about to approve that review, unless this is being deemed
> unacceptable by FPC (though it's not really in the guidelines).
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Sorry I didn't catch the details of that when it was originally proposed.

There's currently guidelines that would prevent that:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name

"[..]One package should use the base name with no versions and all other addons
should note their version in the name."

After sending this I saw mrunge's announcement of updating the python-django package to 1.5 in rawhide and talked to sgallagh on irc. I misunderstood the basic plan, so there's no guidelines incompatibility here :-)

The plan is to release python-djangoVERSION compat packages every time the main python-django package updates. The old python-djangoVERSION compat packages will also be retired when upstream django ends support for that release.

-Toshio