[Fedora-packaging] Python- prefix must for all python module?

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:00:04AM -0400, Rich Mattes wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:22:32 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >
> > > For a package changing name, a package re-review is needed. So this needs
> > > to have a maintainer(s) who have the time to go through the package
> > rename
> > > process to fix it up.
> >
> > Subpackages may be renamed without a re-review. There are enough packages
> > that _end_ with -python, e.g. xmms2-python is a Python module.
> >
> 
> If I wanted to fix up some old packages that use the packagename-python
> convention, would the best way to go about this be to Provide the old
> module name when switching to the new name?  If a package foo-python is a
> subpackage of foo, and I wanted to change it to python-foo, I should:
> 
> %package -n python-foo
> Provides: foo-python
> 
> Or would it be better to obsolete the foo-python package?  I think the
> first is better since it allows the old package to be updated to the new
> package name, and after a couple releases the line providing the old
> package name could be removed.

You would want to _both_ provide the older package name _and_ obsolete
that old package. 

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/
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