Package name changes
Quentin Spencer
qspencer at ieee.org
Mon Jul 11 16:15:13 UTC 2005
Hi all,
When I imported the GiNaC package to extras, I kept the capitalization
in the name (which I admit is odd) so it would match upstream. So,
there's now a new release in which the upstream developer has apparently
modified the name of the package so that it's all lower case. I probably
should have done this to begin with (the Debian package did), but
suppose I wanted to now make a switch to a more sane all-lower-case
name--how would I go about it? (I haven't yet decided to do this--I just
want to figure out what's involved). I've never used the "Obsoletes" in
a spec file before, but I suppose that would be needed here? More
importantly, would I need to create a new package in CVS that obsoletes
the old one, or just put a renamed spec file in the old CVS tree?
Lastly, is all of this worth it for a fairly trivial name change? (Note
that packages requiring ginac aren't a big problem--there's only one).
-Quentin
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