On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:04:35PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:38:31PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:03:36 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > > > MS> JFYI, so more people become aware of one pitfall related to > > > MS> compat-* packages: > > > > > > So far the proposed uses of compat- packages in extras that I've seen > > > have been for providing libraries only. Perhaps we could consider > > > standardizing that usage only and consider other uses as they come up. > > > > In case you haven't noticed, the two bug reports I've pointed to are about > > compat- library packages. Their i18n message object files conflict, and it > > would be wrong to delete them and only ship the libs. It's just another > > problem which can be fixed, but which makes creating such compat- or > > libfooMAJVER- packages less easy. > > Indeed, this is very ugly. Michael, what do you have in mind with > fixing conflicting locale files in this scenario? You can rename the locale files and patch the sources to pass a different domain name to bindtextdomain() quite easily. joe -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
