Orphaning Packages: audacious and dependencies

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:09:24 -0300, Paulo wrote:
>
> > I would create a symbolic link audacious -> audacious2, so the previous
> > bin can still be called.
>
> AFAIK, this is not done in Debian/Ubuntu either. The .desktop file has
> been renamed, too, and additionally the Fedora "--vendor fedora" has had
> to be dropped (or else one would need to keep such patches, which deviate
> from upstream, forever). The manual pages have been renamed to "audtool2"
> and "audacious2".
>
> > I would also call the libs package libs2, so the previous lib package do
> not
> > need to be removed during the upgrade.
>
> That would create an orphan, an obsolete audacious-libs package which
> is not tied to any current src.rpm package, and which could cause
> problems in the future (such as unresolvable deps).
>
> http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/audacious-2.0.1-0.1.fc10.src.rpm
> http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/audacious-plugins-2.0.1-0.3.fc10.src.rpm(updated)
>
>
In fact, I have one:

http://atrpms.net/name/mp3splt-gtk/

However, it can always be rebuilt with the new lib, which will increase the
soname
version. Furthermore, the source is still referencing audacious (not
audacious2),
and will have to be patched.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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