On 5 September 2017 at 00:27, Alexander Ploumistos <alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear all,
About ten days ago I asked a question on this list, but I guess on one
hand it was too specific, while on the other it coincided with people
travelling to Flock or being on vacation. As I really want to get the
package in question back in Fedora, I will ask again and I will try to
be more abstract and concise. For anyone interested, there is a link
to the original post at the end of this message.
Package foo, which depends on library bar for importing a certain type
of files, was retired a couple of releases ago. The library is still
in Fedora, in two different versions, with different functionality
(bar2-2.0.0 & bar-oldsnapshot), but no other package depends on it.
Since the retirement, both foo and bar saw active development with
both projects sharing a few contributors; foo has had a number of
public releases whereas bar hasn't had any, but there is an unreleased
newer version (bar-3.0.0) in its VCS.
Up to a specific release, the bar version bundled with foo was
identical with upstream bar; that is no longer the case, as the
bundled library is closer to that of the final public release, while
the upstream version has been tweaked to work with a third program,
which is also included in Fedora, but does not make use of the bar
library. The upstream bar version won't work with foo for the moment.
I have spoken with the upstream developers and I was told that both
branches will merge back before the bar-3.0.0 public release.
So what I am asking is this: Is it OK if I (re)introduce two packages,
foo and bar3, obsoleting bar and bar2 at the same time, but using
foo's source for bar or should I opt to keep bar bundled with foo,
until the two different forks are reunited?
Best regards
Alex
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists. fedoraproject.org/thread/ EMVB3JGM5AZVVO7NA3E7DHJLB32CMJ JW/
Given the history there and the intended roadmap from upstream for both projects I'd use foo as the source for bar3 until such time bar gets a 3 release
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