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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:00:04 -0400, Rich Mattes wrote:

> 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.

There have been other replies to this already, so I only want to point
at

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages
  -> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages