[aur-general] What's the process for changing a package name?
greenpak-designer-dev has been updated upstream and renamed to "greenpak-designer". I'd like to update the greenpak-designer-dev package to use the new name, but I'm not sure how to proceed. I've thought of a few methods, but I don't know which ones would work best, if at all: - Change $pkgname to the new name, add the old name to $conflicts and $replaces, regenerate .SRCINFO, commit and push to greenpak-designer-dev.git (current remote). - Do the previous steps, but push to greenpak-designer.git (new remote). I'm also not sure if I'd need to merge packages at some point in order to preserve votes and comments, too. Also, if I make a new package, I'm not sure if I should include the old package's git history or initialize a new repo. Thoughts? -- Forest Crossman
On 18/06, Forest Crossman via aur-general wrote:
greenpak-designer-dev has been updated upstream and renamed to "greenpak-designer". I'd like to update the greenpak-designer-dev package to use the new name, but I'm not sure how to proceed. I've thought of a few methods, but I don't know which ones would work best, if at all:
- Change $pkgname to the new name, add the old name to $conflicts and $replaces, regenerate .SRCINFO, commit and push to greenpak-designer-dev.git (current remote). - Do the previous steps, but push to greenpak-designer.git (new remote).
Second.
I'm also not sure if I'd need to merge packages at some point in order to preserve votes and comments, too.
After pushing to the new remote you should file a merge request.
Also, if I make a new package, I'm not sure if I should include the old package's git history or initialize a new repo.
Up to you, but you might want to. -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
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