Orphaning homestead

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:01:20AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> 
> > Jon Ciesla wrote:
> >> Instead of orphaning and doing a new review, couldn't it simply be
> >> renamed, and use a versioned Obsoletes?  Is it really just a new name,
> >> and
> >> otherwise drop-in compatible?
> >
> >
> > Current policy-ish stuff says that it must go through a new package
> > review, for lack of a more streamlined process yet. See last week's
> > FESCo meeting notes for gory details...
> 
> My bad.  So it does need the new review, but not orphaning of the old
> package?

Wasn't there a new policy discussed at FPC or Fesco about this
recently?  So renamed packages could just be renamed without going
through a complete review?

Rich.

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