[aur-general] Renaming a package

[Dave Reisner]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 08:16:17PM -0400, merp boop wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I decided to rename the package renoise to renoise-demo.  "renoise" already
> has a few votes.  Can one of you kind fellows transfer the votes to
> renoise-demo and remove renoise?
> 
> Also, is there a way I can make the people with renoise installed upgrade to
> renoise-demo?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Max

As discussed earlier today on this list, no, we cannot rename a package
or transfer comments/votes. The best you can do is leave a comment on
the AUR page for renoise alerting people of the name change, and upload
a new one. We can only delete the old package.

d