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

[Stephen Gallagher]

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I accidentally replied only to the node mailing list, but this is my
interpretation of the situation:

On 05/02/2013 07:41 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 05/02/2013 06:55 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
> FYI, this is not technically permissible. The packaging guidelines 
> require clean upgrade paths. If you need to install multiple pieces
> of a Bodhi update for things to work, they need to be arranged
> with Requires/Obsoletes/Conflicts appropriately so that they are
> pulled in automatically. Anything else is a bug in the packaging.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> That's not necessarily true. If it's a one-to-one replacement
> (except for the name), then I'd suggest that option 1 is the best
> plan for the short term, but that we should open Bugzilla tickets
> against all known packages depending on the old name to update in
> their next releases.
> 
> If just adding a symlink to make it a full replacement is enough to
> do the job, that's definitely the least impact. No need to force
> an update until the other package is ready for 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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