[Bug 997679] Rename Request: sfml - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997679



--- Comment #33 from Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> ---
The compat-SFML16 package should not have been named a "compat-" package.
Historically and typically, compat packages are runtime-only compatibility
packages for 3rd party software while the distribution rebuilds its own
packages against the latest libs.

Ordinary parallel-installable library packages don't add a "compat-" prefix.

No other package has picked up compat-SFML16-devel as BuildRequires yet. Only
two builds use SFML 1.6 at RPM Fusion, both maintained by the same person, see
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3002

I've missed moving the libs (see comment 31) indeed. Moving the headers already
breaks existing packages such as "vbam", and I've created a patch for that, but
with a non-responsive maintainer at rpmfusion there is no progress/feedback
unfortunately. At the same time, SFML 2 CMake script is broken.

We need to start somewhere. If there's an idea about where to move the libs
(1.6 doesn't use .pc files and doesn't include a reusable cmake script either),
please go ahead. It might more productive to retire compat-SFML16, if the two
packages at rpmfusion can be ported to SFML 2.

That there might be a conflict between the -devel packages some time in the
future would not be a big issue IMO, considering that the entire package
collection is still not free of conflicts.

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