package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 28.3.2013 13:24, Matthias Clasen napsal(a):
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> Dne 28.3.2013 12:09, Florian Festi napsal(a):
>>> This is done to make life easier for package maintainers.
>> Sorry, you definitely not speak for me! This are just excuses. And I
>> asked already several times to have some way to reliable support
>> multiple version of packages without mangling their names.
> gtk vs gtk2 vs gtk3 is not about multiple versions of a package, though. It is about multiple parallel installable branches.

Parallel installable branch packages are just limited subset of multiple 
version of packages. The borders are usually foggy.

>   There are independent updates for gtk2 and for gtk3. I don't think you can really handle that within the same package name.

You have versions for that. Actually, was there gtk3-1.0 package 
anytime? Was there Gnome3 1.0 release? May be even upstreams could think 
about it.

>   Using a major version suffix for that is a well-established convention - I haven't seen any actual problem with this convention mentioned in this discussion so far.

You can check packaging list for parallel discussion [1].


Vít




[1] 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2013-March/008977.html