[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs ap2_subversion, javasvn, pm_subversio(...)

[Maciej Bliziński]

2011/3/21 rupert THURNER <rupert at opencsw.org>:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 19:14, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>> Why do we now have both a "svn" package, and a "subversion" package?
>> and with the exact same name writeup, no less?
>>
>> NAME=svn - Version control rethought
>>
>> NAME=subversion - Version control rethought
>
> because checkpackage suggested to do so ... but maybe i misread the
> error message. could you have a look maciej what is the intention
> behind suggesting such a rename?

The check is there to help people know when pkgname doesn't match
catalogname, which is what most of maintainers want.  In the case of
subversion, the pkgname historically did not match the catalogname.  I
think we probably want to eventually normalize all the package names,
but if this is a security fix, then other changes can be left for
later.

There was a discussion about the check on the maintainers mailing
list[1] [2] some time ago.

By the way, Rupert, do you know about the new mechanism in GAR used to
rename packages and mark obsoleted ones?

Maciej

[1] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2011-February/014111.html
[2] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2011-February/014124.html