If upstream (in this case ubuntu) renamed it totally makes sense to
rename. As for the rpm implications I believe you:
1) notify the list package(s) renaming
2) add the appropriate Obsoletes tag in the new packages
That's it I think? someone else may want to weigh in tho.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:18:30PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out if it makes sense to rename the cloud-utils (sub-)
package for EPEL7 and F21.
Upstream (Ubuntu) used to have a single package named cloud-utils which we
decided to split up into two packages, cloud-utils and cloud-utils-growpart.
The reason being that cloud-utils pulls in a lot of additional packages which
is sub-optimal for cloud images.
Now Ubuntu followed suit and provides cloud-guest-utils and cloud-image-utils
sub-packages. My question is if we should align with Ubuntu and rename our
packages or stick with what we have?
I admit I'm ignorant to all the ramifications of renaming a package but from a
user's perspective it's definitely a benefit if package names match across
distros.
Thanks
...Juerg
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