Renaming in CVS

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Rex Dieter schrieb:
> Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>> One of my packages was renamed upstream. There's a section here:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-581c3fb3ff1c6ef7404e8b288b59cd5280d75ad6
>> explaining what to do in the spec file, but how should it be dealt with in
>> CVS ?
>> Do I require a manual rename on
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CVSSyncNeeded ?
>> Should I create a new srpm and cvs-import.sh it ?
> That's what I did when kimdaba was renamed to kphotoalbum.  Make sure to
> mark the old package deprecated by adding a dead.package file in cvs.

+1 --  Maybe there should be a small note or pointer to the old name in
the initial cvs-commit of the new package (or in the changelog in the
specfile).

But that's not the reason for this mail. Rex or Aurelien, could one of
you two add this solution to the wiki somewhere? tia!

CU
thl