apel -> emacs-apel (was: Re: [ACTION REQUIRED v2] Orphan removal)

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 11:45:54 UTC 2011


On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:46:09 +0900 (JST), Akira wrote:

> BN> Orphan: apel
> BN>     ddskk requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> BN>     emacs-common-w3m requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> BN>     emacs-w3m requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> BN>     flim requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> BN>     migemo-emacs requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> BN>     migemo-xemacs requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> 
> apel has just been renamed to emacs-apel because of the
> naming guidelines. the above packages has to be rebuilt
> against emacs-apel instead of apel.

When renaming a package you would normally add a good Obsoletes/Provides
pair for the old name and drop that only after an appropriate period of
time (e.g. 2-3 dist releases). Has that been done for "apel"?


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