Re: [Fedora-packaging] Confirmation on package rename

[Simone Caronni]

On 3 August 2013 17:47, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  What has happened to
>
>    guacamole-common-javadoc.noarch
>    guacamole-ext-javadoc.noarch
>
>  ? Those are not built anymore, but nothing obsoletes them.
>  
Taken care during guacamole-client review [1].

>  Should I run "fedpkg retire <explanation>" in each
> branch that is going to
>  > be obsolete by the new packages AFTER the new packages [2] hit stable,
>  > right?
>
>  Before or after, doesn't matter. Most important is that the new packages
>  have been reviewed and approved. Remember, the old packages have been
>  published already and are still available in the repositories. Activities
>  in package git, pkgdb and koji don't affect the repository users. (And I
>  assume you've published the new builds for Rawhide already, too, so the
>  koji
>  blocking request will only result in removing packages that have been
>  obsoleted by the newer builds anyway.)
>  
I will obsolete them now, in case of trouble new updates could be pushed to
Bodhi and there's no need to revert back to the old split packages.

Many thanks!

Regards,
---Simone

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985814



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