Re: CVSROOT modules,1.4108,1.4109 (fwd)

[Andreas Thienemann <andreas bawue net>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Warren Togami wrote:

> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ddrescue/?root=extras
> ddrescue has been in Extras for years now, you have imported a duplicate
> a copy.  I have no idea why the package is named ddrescue instead of
> dd_rescue though.
Simple. PackagingNaming Guide says:

When naming packages for Fedora, the maintainer should use the dash '-' as 
the delimiter for name parts. The maintainer should NOT use an underscore 
'_', a plus '+', or a period '.' as a delimiter.

_BUT_

packages where the upstream name naturally contains an underscore are 
excluded from this. 


As the upstream names his package dd_rescue, it should track the upstream 
name.
Thus the former name was actually wrong. Just because debian does use it 
doesn't mean we should too. We are not using underscores as version 
delimiters.

but what is the right way of renaming a package then? to the best of my 
knowledge cvs doesn't offer that functionality?

regards,
 andreas