[Fedora-packaging] [colord] Add conflict on icc-profiles-openicc

ku.b-mal ku.b-list at gmx.de
Fri Feb 28 07:02:08 UTC 2014


Hello,

I am the upstream maintainer of a number of colour management packages
including icc-profiles-openicc and new to this list. Due to the
speciality of matters, I jump in here.

Reason for my write:
[colord] Add conflict on icc-profiles-openicc :
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20131209/1157165.html

Problem:
The above Conflict tag breaks several packages, which rely on
icc-profiles-openicc, namely oyranos and depending graphics software.

We have no bug reports upstream, or in openSUSE, where I maintain many
colour management packages, nor see I such in Fedora in order to work
upstream to fix anything. In the past I was able to fix several issues
including those arrised by openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo and other
distro packagers.

The Conflict tag causes now uncertaincy to packagers and forces me to
take from my development time on bug reports, finding out how packaging
works in Fedora etc.

Request:
remove the RPM spec Conflict tag immediately as it misuses the GNOME
requirement for colord to block Oyranos from Fedora without fixable
reasoning.

Bug reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069672
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042655)

Background:
colord author Richard Hughes sees himself as a competitor to the elder
Oyranos project, which helped paving the way for linux color management.
Not sure why he continues to repeat FUD[1] all over the place regarding
Oyranos. See the open bug as an example for that. But, as you might
imagine, that feels unfriendly.

kind regards and sorry for the noice
Kai-Uwe
-- 
www.oyranos.org

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt


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