apel -> emacs-apel (was: Re: [ACTION REQUIRED v2] Orphan removal)

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 11:48:13 UTC 2011


On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:45:54 +0100, Michael wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:46:09 +0900 (JST), Akira wrote:
> 
> > BN> Orphan: apel
> > BN>     ddskk requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> > BN>     emacs-common-w3m requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> > BN>     emacs-w3m requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> > BN>     flim requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> > BN>     migemo-emacs requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> > BN>     migemo-xemacs requires apel = 10.7-4.fc12
> > 
> > apel has just been renamed to emacs-apel because of the
> > naming guidelines. the above packages has to be rebuilt
> > against emacs-apel instead of apel.
> 
> When renaming a package you would normally add a good Obsoletes/Provides
> pair for the old name and drop that only after an appropriate period of
> time (e.g. 2-3 dist releases). Has that been done for "apel"?

$ repoquery --whatprovides apel
apel-0:10.7-4.fc12.noarch
emacs-apel-0:10.8-1.fc14.noarch
apel-0:10.7-4.fc12.noarch

What do the other packages require a specific VR of apel?
Is that necessary or just too strict?


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