[email protected] wrote:
> On 1/4/2011 9:21 AM, Michael Leibowitz wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:50 -0800, Ryan Ware wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, it looks like Nokia has decided to rename the Aegis
>>> packages to MSSF.  :-(  The first I heard of it was the
>>> repositories in Gitorious being renamed.  Is the procedure here
>>> that I create a bug stating that the package names are incorrect
>>> and that I go through, create new packages with the new names, fix
>>> the yaml and spec files and submit to testing or is there something
>>> else that we do for renaming 
> a project?
>> Please use obsoletes in the spec/yaml to make update work correctly.
>> This is what it is for.
> 
> yup
> 
> one minute thing; if you use obsoletes, please use a versioned
> obsoletes, like 
> 
> Obsoletes: foo <= 4.23-2
> 
> the reason for this is that if you do a "naked" obsoletes like
> 
> Obsoletes: foo
> 
> you can never ever go back or use another package with that name,
> while if it's versioned then the obsoletes is bounded...


is it still the case that it's necessary to use a Conflicts
/and/ a Provides line (providing the old package name) to 
really get the replacement right?

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