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I maintain coverity for nanodbc project at https://scan.coverity.com/projects/lexicalunit-nanodbc

I also registered new project for nanodbc at https://scan.coverity.com/projects/nanodbc-nanodbc that points to new location of git repository at GitHub.

I realised I can rename the old existing project pointing to that new location.

  1. I went to Coverity Scan > nanodbc/nanodbc > Project Settings and deleted the project. Yes, there was Delete button - apparently, it is available for projects which have not submitted any builds yet.
  2. I went to Coverity Scan > lexicalunit/nanodbc > Project Settings > hit Rename button > selected nanodb/nanodbc repository at GitHub from the drop-down list
  3. Scan Coverity failed to rename with "Name already registered".

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Loading https://scan.coverity.com/projects/nanodbc-nanodbc gives HTTP 404, so the project has been deleted indeed, but the name apparently has not been released.

Why Coverity does not allow to re-use name of deleted project? Isn't there any workaround?

Is that due to this explanation:

We generally do not delete projects from SCAN as we keep aggregate metrics on the projects.

As I mentioned, the nanodbc/nanodbc project I created initially had not submitted any builds to analyze.

By the way, Coverity Scan via Twitter does not seem to be responsive

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Coverity Scan support team confirmed the issue responding to my e-mail with this:

Unfortunately a long standing bug regarding renames in SCAN which does not update the associate project resources. We can remove the existing projects for you so that you can start from scratch.

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