Renaming the cloud-utils package

Matthias Runge mrunge at matthias-runge.de
Thu Feb 20 10:46:26 UTC 2014


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:18:30PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if it makes sense to rename the cloud-utils
> (sub-)package for EPEL7 and F21.
> 
> Upstream (Ubuntu) used to have a single package named cloud-utils which we
> decided to split up into two packages, cloud-utils and
> cloud-utils-growpart. The reason being that cloud-utils pulls in a lot of
> additional packages which is sub-optimal for cloud images.
> 
> Now Ubuntu followed suit and provides cloud-guest-utils and
> cloud-image-utils sub-packages. My question is if we should align with
> Ubuntu and rename our packages or stick with what we have?
> 
> I admit I'm ignorant to all the ramifications of renaming a package but
> from a user's perspective it's definitely a benefit if package names match
> across distros.

It makes sense to follow upstream here. The process is documented
here[1]. I'd inform the cloud WG, because they might be interested ;-)

Matthias


[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Renaming_Process
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