mingw32-w32api.patch

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:25:07PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:00:29PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> >> @@ -30,11 +29,6 @@
> >>  # Once this is installed, mingw32-bootstrap (binary bootstrapper) is no
> >>  # longer needed.
> >>  Obsoletes:      mingw32-w32api-bootstrap
> >> -Obsoletes:      mingw-w32api-bootstrap
> >> -
> >> -Provides:       mingw-w32api = %{version}-%{release}
> >> -Obsoletes:      mingw-w32api < 3.11-7
> >> -
> > 
> > Why is this removed?  It should remain there, see:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages
> 
> that session always refer to "existing package". there was no such
> packages neither in fedora nor in any external repos. imho just because
> you (and me also:-) use some internal packages we'd not have to pollute
> these 'brand new' packages.
> or we've to always search the whole web for the same packages with
> different names.

Well OK, I guess we haven't had the mingw-* packages for quite a long
time, and they were never released formerly.  I'll test your patch and
if it works apply it to the Mercurial repo.

Rich.

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