Renaming in CVS

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jul 21 13:27:01 UTC 2006


Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> One of my packages was renamed upstream. There's a section here:
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-581c3fb3ff1c6ef7404e8b288b59cd5280d75ad6
> explaining what to do in the spec file, but how should it be dealt with in
> CVS ?
> Do I require a manual rename on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CVSSyncNeeded ?
> Should I create a new srpm and cvs-import.sh it ?

That's what I did when kimdaba was renamed to kphotoalbum.  Make sure to
mark the old package deprecated by adding a dead.package file in cvs.

-- Rex




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