Hi,
On 6/1/21 6:20 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> doxbox-staging is trying to overwrite the regular dosbox package:
>
> Installing:
> dosbox-staging x86_64 0.76.0-2.fc34 fedora 1.4 M
> replacing dosbox.x86_64 0.74.3-7.fc34
>
> From its SPEC[1]:
>
> # This package is a drop-in replacement for dosbox
> Provides: dosbox = %{version}-%{release}
> Obsoletes: dosbox < 0.74.4
>
> Is this Okay? These packages has different maintainers. According to the Fedora packaging guidelines, one package cannot introduce conflicts with another.
This is intentional, regular dosbox is more-or-less (*) unmaintained upstream so we have decided to switch to dosbox-staging, also see the Package Review for dosbox staging:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1884608
As such dosbox-staging is intended as a replacement for the regular dosbox (and it is fully compatible with the regular dosbox). This was coordinated with the dosbox owner, but we have forgotten to actually retire dosbox, sorry about that. I'll retire dosbox in rawhide right away.
Regards,
Hans
*) They have not done a release in many years, nor has any meaningful feature development are maintenance like moving to SDL2 happened.
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