documenting process for packages renamed upstream

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun Jun 15 20:32:58 UTC 2008


On Sunday 15 June 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:13 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:
> > Is the process for renaming packages in fedora that have been renamed
> > upstream document on the wiki?  I haven't been able to find any
> > description of our process in that case.
> >
> > I think it happens often enough that the process should be written down.
> > As I understand it a new package review is not required in the case but
> > cvsadmin requests are needed to create the new package.
>
> If you don't find this, can you draft a page under User:Petersen,
> then ... well, I suppose you submit it to the Packaging SIG?  I think
> that group all have ACLs to update Packaging(.*).

Wouldn't the general renaming guideline apply?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages




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