[Fedora-packaging] input on a conflicts case

[Jon Ciesla]

Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 05/07/2011 07:11 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>   
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I'm looking at the supybot-gribble package (under review).
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693664
>>
>> Currently it Conflicts: supybot.
>> It's not really falling under any of the current cases on
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts
>> but I think it might be another case to add next to compat packages.
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> supybot is a irc bot written in python. It's already in Fedora.
>> Development is very slow. Currently many of the database functions in
>> it don't work because they still haven't switched from sqlite1 for
>> example. We also have several plugins that use it.
>>
>> supybot-gribble is a blessed rapid development fork. Changes here are
>> fast paced and much more current. Once patches here look good and
>> stable they are submitted back to the main supybot branch. It's much
>> like a 'supybot-rawhide' or devel.
>>
>> The two packages share the name and python tree files. Upstream has no
>> desire to rename things in supybot-gribble as this will make it harder
>> to fold changes back into supybot. There is no great need to run both
>> at the same time on the same machine.
>>
>> In the review I suggested we just let them conflict and setup the
>> plugins so they would work with either (require /usr/bin/supybot). To
>> me this seems like an acceptable Conflicts case related to the 'compat
>> packages' case, except in this case it's 'newer/rawhide/ng version'.
>>
>> Thoughts? Flames?
>>     
>
> Seems sane so I am with you on this one.
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I am as well, tentatively.  My yum-math is weak, if we file-require 
/usr/bin/supybot, which will get pulled in by default, and is it the one 
we want, for some value of "we"?

-J

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