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

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From: Miroslav Suchy <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: spring vs. spring - conflict in names
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:39:19 +0100

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/