[Fedora-packaging] Procedure for renaming a package?

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Oct 2 19:32:15 UTC 2008


On Thursday 02 October 2008, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > Since I have to do some updates to my (only, <sigh>) package, I'd also
> > like to take the opportunity to change its name to something that fits
> > the python naming guidelines better.  Currently it is called 'pysvn',
> > and I'd like to change it to 'python-pysvn'.
>
> pysvn is fine.

Right.  But for other cases where renaming/replacing is more appropriate, we 
have documentation in the package naming guidelines:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages




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