[Fwd: Re: spring vs. spring - conflict in names]

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From: Gilboa Davara <[email protected]>
To: Miroslav Suchy <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: spring vs. spring - conflict in names
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:26:29 +0200

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Miroslav Suchy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ralph and Gilboa,
> you both are maintainers (at least last persons in changelog) of spring
> package.
> While Ralph's spring is java framework living at jpackage.org, Gilboa's
> spring is RTS game living in Fedora.
>
> We (Spacewalk project [1]) used spring (java framework) for ages. And we did
> not notice that two packages of the two names exist, because that java
> framework had higher version-release. But recently spring (game) got bumped
> up version and we find that our management server got new game! But
> unfortunately the server stopped working.
> We fixed it for time being by putting few conflicts in spec files. But I do
> not think it is sustainable solution in long term.
>
> Therefore I kindly ask you, whether some of you - or both of you - are
> willing to change the name of your package. For example to spring-game (or
> spring-rts) and spring-java (or spring-framework).
>
> I know that both of you use that name for ages (both nearly the same time)
> and since you are both from different projects, no one and no policy can
> force you to the rename. But if you are willing to do that, you will make
> life of few people easier.
>
> Kind Regards
>        Miroslav Suchy
>
>
> [1] http://spacewalk.redhat.com/

Hello Miroslav,

Unless there's another option, I'd rather not rename spring.
Given the fact that it's already been included into Fedora and has a
number of sub-packages (springlobby, spring-maps-default,
spring-installer) it'll require me to jump through a number of
bureaucratic hoops and force spring uses to redownload a number of
packages.

- Gilboa