On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:00:04 -0400
Rich Mattes <richmattes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If I wanted to fix up some old packages that use the
packagename-python convention, would the best way to go about this be
to Provide the old module name when switching to the new name? If a
package foo-python is a subpackage of foo, and I wanted to change it
to python-foo, I should:
%package -n python-foo
Provides: foo-python
Or would it be better to obsolete the foo-python package? I think the
first is better since it allows the old package to be updated to the
new package name, and after a couple releases the line providing the
old package name could be removed.
It should obsolete the foo-python package from the start. Otherwise the
old package isn't updated to the new package name. Then after a couple
of releases you can remove the obsolete and the provides.
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org