On 7/6/06, Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 13:42 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: The message that this all stems from is here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-July/msg00050.html the quotation by you is that you are requiring php >= 4.2.0 in some packages; php >= 4.3.0 in others. php 4.3.3 was already present in Fedora Core 1 so the package version is deeply irrelevant for Fedora.
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The rule is whether the lowest version requirement is satisfied by the packages on Fedora's target distributions. It may be open to interpretation whether "target distribution release" means non-EOL distributions (in which case FC4+ currently) or distributions the packager is actively building for but in either case, php >= 4.2.0 being irrelevant even for FC1 means it is too old.
I have no problem with just Requiring php instead of php 4.2 because 4.2 is ancient. Note that even my default spec file: http://tkmame.retrogames.com/fedora-extras/spectemplate-pear.spec Does not have any version number listed for php. But I do not see any harm in actually providing this information, it would seem especially important for packages that require php 5 or even php 6 when it comes out. But a really important point I want to make and clarify: It is not the php version that really concerns me. It is the version requirements of other pear packages which is my main concern. For example, take a look at my spec file for Payment_Process: http://tkmame.retrogames.com/fedora-extras/php-pear-Payment-Process.spec This package requires 5 other pear packages with specific version requirements that have been listed by the package. Now my questions are: 1) Should I not list the version numbers for these packages just because these packages never existed in Fedora? 2) Is there any harm in listing the version number requirements? 3) Is there any benefit to not having the version number requirements? Thanks for keeping an open mind. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
