Dne 19. 02. 20 v 9:32 Tom Hughes napsal(a): > On 19/02/2020 07:05, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: >> On 18.02.2020 22:29, David Sommerseth wrote: >>> We released the OpenVPN 3 Linux v8 beta release early last week [0], >>> with the >>> Fedora Copr repository [1] updated as well. Now things are working >>> so well it >>> is about time to get this package into the mainline Fedora >>> repositories. >> >> Fedora already has OpenVPN package, so you cannot add another one, >> because when version 3.0 will be released by upstream, Fedora's package >> will be updated and it will cause package conflict, which is strictly >> forbidden by Fedora guidelines. > > That's certainly how things typically works, but it's certainly > not the only one - see python3 for example. > > In this case I believe that although the client is intended to be > protocol compatible with openvpn 2 it's basically an entirely new > program with a totally different architecture and user interface > so parallel packaging seems reasonable. In that case, it would be much better to rename openvpn to openvpn2 and rebase the openvpn to version 3 without suffix. Vít > > > In addition I think that this is only the client, so the existing > package will still be needed for server usage for now. I'm not > totally sure about that though as the package is a little confusing > on that front - it calls itself a client but also has a -client > subpackage. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
