missing gnome-keyring-devel

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Feb 2 13:04:16 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 12:29 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:52:54 +0100, MC (Milan) wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 07:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > This is a dependency of deja-dup and seems to have silently obsoleted.
> > > Changelog shows https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771299 as a
> > > pointer but it is unclear to me what am I supposed to do?
> > 
> > 	Hi,
> > it was renamed to libgnome-keyring-devel, a note in the gnome-keyring
> > ChangeLog would work, as it was not obvious for me too.
> 
> "Renamed"? If so, it would be just another example why our Package Renaming
> Process is flawed and only adds tiresome bureaucracy for those who follow it.
> 
> This new package was introduced as a _conflicting_ package with a normal
> review request and without following:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Renaming_Process
> 

There's no renaming going on here, really. A package was split
(gnome-keyring calved libgnome-keyring as a separate module), and as a
consequence, gnome-keyring-devel became libgnome-keyring-devel. We could
have probably handled the transition better by adding a temporary
provides. Too late now.



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