Proposed PackageRenaming guideline

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Thu Dec 18 17:58:46 UTC 2008


On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:48:52 am Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:43:19AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > As far as I can tell we don't have a guideline for how to do package
> > renames. Here's my first attempt at such a guideline:
>
> In fact there is one, but it was never written down (at least it
> is what I was told when I asked recently). The guideline is that
> a re-review is required.
from memory yes.  you need a re-review  then to EOL the old package. 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife and 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages 
hint at it.  We should make it crystal clear  :)

Dennis




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