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.2Frepla...
->
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_E...