Dne 28.3.2013 13:24, Matthias Clasen napsal(a):
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Dne 28.3.2013 12:09, Florian Festi napsal(a):
This is done to make life easier for package maintainers.
Sorry, you definitely not speak for me! This are just excuses. And I
asked already several times to have some way to reliable support
multiple version of packages without mangling their names.
gtk vs gtk2 vs gtk3 is not about multiple versions of a package, though. It is about multiple parallel installable branches.
Parallel installable branch packages are just limited subset of multiple
version of packages. The borders are usually foggy.
There are independent updates for gtk2 and for gtk3. I don't think you can really handle that within the same package name.
You have versions for that. Actually, was there gtk3-1.0 package
anytime? Was there Gnome3 1.0 release? May be even upstreams could think
about it.
Using a major version suffix for that is a well-established convention - I haven't seen any actual problem with this convention mentioned in this discussion so far.
You can check packaging list for parallel discussion [1].
Vít
[1]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2013-March/008977.html
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