Proposed PackageRenaming guideline

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 00:53 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> something as trivial as a name change.

Sadly, name changes aren't trivial.  They involve Obsoletes/Provides,
and these are frequently done wrong.  When done wrong, you can get to a
point where a package obsoletes itself which has resulted in some fun
yum output.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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