On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:00 AM Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> wrote:

Hello,

In an upcoming release the libnfsdimap library
will be rolled into the nfs-utils package.
Meaning nfs-utils will be install libnfsidmap
instead of the libnfsidmap package.

The libnfsidmap name will stay the same
so I'm hoping there will not be any problems.
Just the owner of the library will change.

Useful general page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrade_paths_%E2%80%94_renaming_or_splitting_packages

Questions:

1) What do I do with the old libnfsidmap package
since it will no longer be updated.

You will want to retire this SRPM. Follow https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

2) How do I notify the packages that are dependent
on the libnfsidmap package to change their dependency
to nfs-utils

Well, you don't need to do that. You can have nfs-utils do a virtual Provides: on libnfsidmap. Also, if they are using automatic requires, those should Just Work, since they are now comig from a new package.

You will want to make sure to add `Obsoletes: libnfsidmap <= <last_released_version>` to nfs-utils.

3) Will this cause any build problems now that nfs-utils
will be installing the new library?

Nope.

4) What am I missing?