[Fedora-packaging] Multiple file ownership allowed nowadays?

Michel Alexandre Salim salimma at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 30 20:46:19 UTC 2012


On 01/30/2012 01:31 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2012, 23:38 -0500 schrieb Jon Stanley:
>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Christoph Wickert
>> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if this rule is still needed. I know I'd loose backward
>>> compatibility with older rpm versions, but I don't want make a
>>
>> I agree that a -common subpackage is silly for this, but are any of
>> the RPM versions that this *wouldn't* work with still in supported
>> releases?
> 
> Not in Fedora.
> 
>> The only one I'd be concerned with is RHEL5, but I think even that
>> works right, no?
> 
> I haven't tested it, but based on my experience with multi-arch file
> conflicts I *guess* it will not work on RHEL 5.
> 
But RHEL 5 shouldn't really get gtk3 packages anyway, right?

Regards,

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