[email protected] wrote: > On 1/27/2011 7:59 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> with openSUSE 11.4 we have the old powertop >> version packaged as powertop. >> >> I have been told that it's a bad idea to create >> a package name like powertop-ng or powertop2 >> and later try to get it renamed and replace >> the powertop package. >> >> My idea is to simply name it powertop2 and >> still get it shipped with 11.4. >> >> How are other distributions doing this? >> Would be stupid if different package names >> for the same thing are flying around. > > for MeeGo we're just going to call it "powertop", it's just > version 2.0 of the tool > > how does SuSE normally deal with version changes in upstream projects?
nothing SuSE specific in this answer, if they have something different though it would be odd...: the funny naming is used only when there's an expectation the two have to live concurrently on a system, no? e.g. you might go to powertop2 if old powertop has to live around to serve up some existing binaries that were linked with a library from the old package... and that doesn't seem likely here? _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
