Michael Schwendt píše v Čt 18. 12. 2008 v 12:51 +0100: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:09:06 +0100, Dan wrote: > > > > For example, in KDE SIG we're telling folks to keep using qt4-devel and > > > kdelibs4-devel and we have no plans to drop those virtual Provides. > > > > The wxWidgets API should be stable over all GUI toolkits used (GTK, > > Cocoa, X, MSWin, ...). And there were probably some > > differences/incompatibilities between wxWidgets build against GTK 1 and > > wxWidgets built against GTK 2, that lead the audacity developers to > > require the GTK 2 version. > > It's the opposite. > > The stable release series of Audacity, 1.2.x, is made for the GTK+ 1 > version of wxWidgets. The beta releases have closed the gap and are made > for and tested with "wxWidgets 2", albeit for quite some time not the very > latest. Meanwhile the requirement is wxWidgets 2.8.x. > > We used to have wxGTK, wxGTK2, compat-wxGTK, compat-wxGTK2, and > compat-wxGTK26, not just because of Audacity. Since F-7 there is only one wxGTK package, if I read the old specs correctly. That corresponds to the release of wxGTK 2.8.0 and the package was (and still is) built with the wxWidgets 2.4 compatibility compile-time option enabled. > > IMO, there is no need to keep virtual package names forever. If a package > gets renamed after years, the BuildRequires in other packages can be > adjusted accordingly. > > What I'd like to see, however, is that this is done with an announcement > and not for old branches. Else we offer source rpms with broken Requires. > Here was the old stuff dropped only in rawhide 2 weeks ago, the changelog lies (s/Nov/Dec/). But I agree that an announcement must be sent. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
