Hi,
On 6/2/21 12:47 AM, François Cami wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:36 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:34 PM Otto Urpelainen <oturpe@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hans de Goede kirjoitti 1.6.2021 klo 21.02:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I think it is great that Fedora now has dosbox-staging and arrow keys
>>> work again. Many games were quite annoying to play without them. And
>>> there are other improvements as well.
>>>
>>> But the complaint I have about this process is that, if you use the
>>> default dosbox-staging config, quite many games that actually ran with
>>> dosbox crash on dosbox-staging startup. That problem should be patched
>>> around somehow before dosbox can go. See Bugzilla discussion [1].
>>>
>>> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933849#c4
>>>
>>
>> As an aside, I'm slightly confused why dosbox wasn't just replaced
>> with dosbox-staging with the same packaging...
>
> Different upstreams (different teams, etc).
Right, the original dosbox project is still somewhat alive, so the purpose
of having a dosbox-staging package instead of just putting the tarbal from
dosbox-staging into the dosbox package is to make it clear that Fedora is
packaging dosbox-staging and not the original dosbox.
Regards,
Hans
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