Aurelien Bompard wrote: > Hey, > > The new version of Amarok needs to update libvisual from 0.2 to 0.4. This > will break dependencies in libvisual-plugins and gstreamer08-plugins > (that's what "repoquery --whatrequires libvisual.so.0" says). I have four > options : > 1) Warn the maintainers of the dependencies, ask them to try to rebuild > their packages with the new version, update in devel and FC-5, and ask the > maintainers to rebuild their packages for version 0.4. That sounds very > error-prone. > 2) Update to version 0.4 only in devel, disabling visualisation plugins > in > the new amarok. That's not nice to those who like them. > 3) Update to version 0.4 only in devel, and update amarok only in devel > too. That's not nice, amarok is one of these apps for which you always > want the latest version :) > 4) Create a compat-libvisual020 package and update in devel and FC5. That > sounds like the best solution, but may I create this package and import it > in CVS without review ? Are there guidelines for this type of packages ? > > What do you think is best ? IMO, If possible, 1, else a combination of 4 and 1, ie, dropping compat-libvisual (or whatever it's named) when/if all other dependancies are updated to libvisual-0.4. -- Rex -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
