[Fedora-packaging] Package rename breakage - wat do?

[Tom Hughes]

On 02/05/13 08:38, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:

> So, should we:
> 1. provide a compatibility symlink so older versions of
>      nodejs-request aren't broken at all
>
> 2. add Conflicts to nodejs-cookie-jar specifiying the older versions
>      of nodejs-request that it will break
>
> 3. do nothing; if you install only part of a single bodhi update and
>      it breaks you get to keep both pieces

Another option is to say that a rename of a node module is not what the 
rename guidelines call a "compatible enough replacement" which would 
mean the new package would not provide the old name, but would still 
obsolete it.

Any packages that depended on the old name would then need to be rebuilt 
to depend on the new name and yum would not allow one to be updated 
without the other.

Tom

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