Packages for everybody !

Elad elad at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 3 10:30:58 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be
> > packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be
> > smaller and more straightforward to package:
> >
> > gnome-utils has exploded into
> > baobab
> > gnome-font-viewer
> > gnome-dictionary
> > gnome-search-tool
> > gnome-system-log
> > gnome-screenshot
> > gnome-dictionary
> >
> > gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is
> > gcr
>
> Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
> One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
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I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain
as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
sure the upgrade case will work.

btw, there was a separated package for baobab in the past, what's the
protocol for reviving such package?

-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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