"DČ" == Dan Čermák dan.cermak@cgc-instruments.com writes:
DC> I tried to submit the package and during review I was made aware of DČ> the package bear-devel, which is already in the fedora DČ> repository.
Actually the source package name is just "bear", it merely produces bear-devel, bear-engine and bear-factory. So the repository https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bear already exists, and your conflict is more than just an issue with confusion about bear-devel.
DČ> My question is: how should I address this issue? Renaming my DČ> proposed package to Build-ear would be an option, but the binary DČ> should still be called bear, to avoid confusion for users. Should I DČ> ask the upstream author about their opinion concerning renaming?
Fortunately there is nothing in the distribution which provides /usr/bin/bear, so there wouldn't be a problem there.
I could see perhaps persuading the bear maintainer to rename their entire package to "bear-engine" and have "bear-engine-devel" and "bear-engine-factory". Its binaries are "bend-image", "image-cutter" (which itself seems conflict-prone), some things with a "bf-" prefix, and "running-bear". But any conversation about renaming is one you should have with the bear package maintainer.
- J<