procedure for renaming a package
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Mon Oct 6 16:06:27 UTC 2008
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:10:34AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:09:14 -0700
> jkeating at j2solutions.net ("Jesse Keating") wrote:
>
> > Renaming a package is just bringing in the new package, getting it
> > reviewed, particularly for correct Provides/Obsoletes, and then
> > requesting that the old named package be removed.
>
> Note, that I don't think we should remove the old package, we should
> simply follow the normal end of life procedure for it.
Indeed, and I think that that part of the procedure is already correctly
documented in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife
How to create th enew package is undocumented, however if it is a
regular review, it shouldn't be hard to document it.
--
Pat
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