Doubt about how to proceed when a project change its name

Jochen Sprickerhof jspricke at debian.org
Thu Jan 17 20:49:59 GMT 2019


Hi Jose,

* Jose Luis Rivero <jrivero at openrobotics.org> [2019-01-16 16:43]:
>One of my packages has been renamed completely (the project name
>included). While I don't have problems handling with package renaming, I
>have a couple of doubts:
>
>1. Should I rename the current repository or should I create a new one
>and leave the current one as it is now?

You can rename a repo in settings -> general -> advanced and it should 
be available on the old address as well (afaik). So I would go for the 
rename.

>2. What should I do with the changelog? Leave the current entries as
>they are now or start one from scratch.

Leave them in, same as the git history.

Cheers Jochen
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