Nixpkgs: How to deal with renamed packages

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Package in question: vmware-horizon-client

VMware’s end-user-business was sold off to Omnissa in April 2024 (Introducing Omnissa, formerly VMware End-User Computing). Omnissa has since maintaned horizon-client, first under the name “vmware_horizon_client”, but this has now changed to “omnissa_horizon_client”.

How are Situations like this handled in nixpkgs? Do I just rename/move the updated package? Can I create an alias for the old package?

WIP Update branch: Comparing NixOS:master...mhutter:bump/vmware-horizon-client · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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I remember seeing some aliases.nix file(s?)

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Hey, there is! And it even has a lot of deprecations in it!

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aliases.nix only has deprecated aliases, i.e. people are expected to migrate to the new names within some time period. Permanent aliases would be just in all-packages.nix, but for your case I’m convinced it should be aliases.nix.

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