On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:22:32 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> For a package changing name, a package re-review is needed. So this needs
> to have a maintainer(s) who have the time to go through the package rename
> process to fix it up.

Subpackages may be renamed without a re-review. There are enough packages
that _end_ with -python, e.g. xmms2-python is a Python module.

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.

Rich