[Fedora-music-list] Re: package naming question: muse -vs - MusE

[Russell Harrison]

Out of curiosity,

Assuming that the current extras package was renamed would it only be
implemented in the current development / future versions?  Using RPM how
would we go about upgrading the current package to the new name.
Using obsoletes would work initially to replace it if there wasn't a new
package coming in with the same name.  That would then cause anyone
installing emacs-muse after muse to have their muse package removed.

What is the proper way of doing this?  My understanding of RPM leads me to
believe that the "cleanest" way to include the new muse package in FC5 is
for its package to be renamed, even though the current package is the
"proper" candidate for renaming.  The other option is to change the names
for FC6+ and call it done.

Am I right about this or is there a mechanism I'm unaware of?

On 5/8/06, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:12 -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Anthony Green (green at redhat.com) said:
> > >
> > >> There are some discussions about merging parts of PlanetCCRMA into
> > >> Fedora Extras.  One of the problems has to do with package namespace
> > >> conflicts.  For instance, PlanetCCRMA has had a "muse" package for
> many
> > >> years (http://www.muse-sequencer.org).  But now FE has an emacs
> > >> extension package called "muse".
> > >>
> > >> One of the suggestions was to use the official project spelling of
> > >> "MusE" for the package name.  Do the Extras packaging guidelines
> allow
> > >> this (having both MusE and muse package)?
> > >> Some combination of CVS, bugzilla, and/or the buildsystem I suspect
> would
> > >> break.
> > >>
> > >> Frankly, I'd rename the emacs thing emacs-muse, but that's just me.
> :)
> >
> > Why not call the CCRMA packages "<package>-CCRMA"? That way there's no
> > conflicts.
>
> Because they are not part of CCRMA. Same reason for not naming extras
> packages "extras-whatever".
>
> -- Fernando
>
> > If this is just a spec file change, it won't affect CVS, and
> > it's a relatively trivial build change. As for Bugzilla... well, I don't
> > know what kind of automatic hooks the software has into submitting bug
> > reports, but it should not be hard to strip the trailing -CCRMA for
> > submitting.
> >
> > However, in this one case, I agree with the idea that if muse is an
> > emacs add-on, it should probably be emacs-muse.
>
>
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