Thanks for help Fabio. On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 12:10 PM Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 11:45 Tomas Korbar <tkor...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I would like to ask you a question. If upstream of your package does >> major rewrite of it, then what is the proper process to rebase such >> package? I'm maintainer of cheat [0] which has been rewritten in go. I >> suppose i need a new package review but then if the new spec passes review >> am i supposed to replace the spec of old package entirely or preserve >> changelog and add new entry with description of what happened + link to the >> review? >> > > Hi Tomas, > > You don't need to go through package review again, since it's not a new > package. So just update it to the new version, and keep the old changelog. > > However, if you want feedback on the new packaging before pushing it to > fedora, you could publish the .spec file and submit the new version to a > COPR repo first, so users can look at it, test it, and give you comments. I > do it like this for my packages when they have major changes. > > It would be another matter if the new version is installable alongside the > old version, then you could package both of them separately, but I guess > that's not the case here. > > Fabio > > [0] - https://github.com/cheat/cheat >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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