wxGTK2 -> wxGTK rename without Provides

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Dec 18 23:03:39 UTC 2008


Ville Skyttä wrote:
> We encourage garbage collecting old cruft, keeping it around indefinitely
> should be a pretty rare exception for quite specific cases (or at least
> that's the way I remember it when we worked on it in FPC).

Once again, a Provides with a version number attached is *not* old cruft,
it's both backwards and *forwards* thinking, because another new major
version will inevitably happen.

        Kevin Kofler




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