On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:43:26PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I am working on taking over toshutils. One of the things I would like > to do is incorporate a patch that updates it from GTK+ to GTK2. The > patch came from ALT Linux. > Up to now I have been considering keeping the toshutils package as it is > and then adding a second binary package from the same source, called > toshutils-gtk2. However, in reading the Policy Manual about the use of > Replaces, I am not sure how to proceed. The Policy Manual states that > it is a violation of policy for a pacakge to contain files in the same > location as another package without replacing it. Specifically: > "It is an error for a package to contain files which are on the system in > another package, unless Replaces is used" > This leaves me in the akward position of having toshutils and > toshutils-gtk2 both Conflict and Replace each other. That doesn't really > make sense. > I have a few options: > 1) Setup toshutils-gtk2 to compile binaries to have different names and > maybe not have them Conflict. > 2) Have both packages use the same binary names, remove the Conflict and > set them up to use alternatives. > 3) Forget about a GTK+ version and press ahead with a GTK2 only package. > 4) Forget about a GTK2 version and press ahead with a GTK+ only package. > I would like to know what everyone thinks. Forget about the GTK+ 1.2 version, so we can let that library die? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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