apel -> emacs-apel

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Thu Feb 24 12:08:12 UTC 2011


Michael Schwendt wrote, at 02/24/2011 08:48 PM +9:00:
> 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?

Well, I just checked one example and
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=2376622
says that emacs-w3m has just "Requires: apel" and does not have
such strict version-specific dependency.

Regards,
Mamoru


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