On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
'''
When you implement the new Provides, please leave the old ones so that
third party packages that have grown to depend on them can continue to
function. The Requires for all Fedora packages should be changed to use
the new provides by F-9, however.
'''
I think using the same backwards compatibility recommendations as in naming
guidelines' renaming/replacing existing packages section would work fine.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-3cfc1ea19d2...