[Bug 572233] Review Request: compat-tracker - Compatibilty libraries and tools for tracker-0.6.x

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--- Comment #43 from Deji Akingunola <dakingun at gmail.com> 2010-04-27 22:57:56 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #42)
> Then this package should never have passed review!
> 
> It is completely unacceptable for a compatibility package to conflict with the
> main version. (Conflicts in -devel are tolerated for compat packages, but this
> is about a runtime conflict.) It means you cannot use paperbox if you use
> anything which requires the current tracker and pretty much defeats the point
> of having this compat package at all.
> 
I think I've tried to make it clear throughout the review that this package is
essentially for paperbox. We needed to update tracker to tracker-0.8.x 
(tracker-0.6.x is just not good), and paperbox can't be made to work with
tracker >= 0.7.
IMO, paperbox needs to be dropped; most (nearly all) of its functionalities are
handled by the tracker-search-tool and tracker's nautilus plugin, and its
upstream developer had made it clear he had no intention of working on it
anymore. I have gently asked the paperbox maintainer to obsolete it, but got no
response.
A lot of tracker internals have changed from 0.6.x to 0.7, they really can't
work together (I can made them parallel installable).

> > I've made this to explicitly 'Conflicts' with the actual/latest tracker
> > package. As a result of this, I've re-added some files that were not package
> > earlier to prevent simultaneous installation conflict with tracker.
> 
> That's not a proper solution, sorry.

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