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Summary: Review Request: xdvik - An X viewer for DVI files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427667
------- Additional Comments From jonathan.underwood@gmail.com 2008-01-14 17:39 EST ------- (In reply to comment #17)
A first note is that it seems to me that 22.84.12 should be obsoleted (if xdvi is).
Yes, sorry, I meant Obsoletes: xdvi <=22.84.12
The issue I see is that the xdvi package exists and it is a different upstream. However I can't see a reason why somebody would want to package it.
Yes.. but it's dead upstream ... no release since 2004... xdvik is essentially upstream now.
In fact it may have been unfortunate that I (I think it was me in a patch fro texlive.spec) called it xdvi and not xdvik. However it is not that obvious since it certainly makes sense to have yum install xdvi installs xdvik.
Yes, we definately want yum install xdvi to do the right thing.
Maybe one possibility could be to drop completely the Obsoletes: xdvi
and leave Provides: xdvi = %{version}-%{release}
I am happy with that...
This will hurt the rawhide texlive users but maybe it would be better.
I don't think it will, since the xdvi in rawhide is at version 22.84.12-8.fc9, so rawhide users will just see an updated package. Did I miss something?
On balance i think the last choice is probably best