Re: Orphaning homestead
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:58:23 +0000
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:01:20AM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>
> > Jon Ciesla wrote:
> >> Instead of orphaning and doing a new review, couldn't it simply
> >> be renamed, and use a versioned Obsoletes? Is it really just a
> >> new name, and
> >> otherwise drop-in compatible?
> >
> >
> > Current policy-ish stuff says that it must go through a new
> > package review, for lack of a more streamlined process yet. See
> > last week's FESCo meeting notes for gory details...
>
> My bad. So it does need the new review, but not orphaning of the
> old package?
It needs a new review of the new package, and the old package needs to
follow:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife
once the new package is approved and in.
Thats the current policy.
Wasn't there a new policy discussed at FPC or Fesco about this
recently? So renamed packages could just be renamed without going
through a complete review?
I proposed an alternate method that would allow just checking
Obsoletes/Provides on the new package before allowing it to be created.
This proposal was not accepted by FESCo.
So, for now at least, treat the new name as a new package.
Rich.
kevin
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