On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:11:38AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm looking at the supybot-gribble package (under review). > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693664 > > Currently it Conflicts: supybot. > It's not really falling under any of the current cases on > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts > but I think it might be another case to add next to compat packages. > > Background: > > supybot is a irc bot written in python. It's already in Fedora. > Development is very slow. Currently many of the database functions in > it don't work because they still haven't switched from sqlite1 for > example. We also have several plugins that use it. > > supybot-gribble is a blessed rapid development fork. Changes here are > fast paced and much more current. Once patches here look good and > stable they are submitted back to the main supybot branch. It's much > like a 'supybot-rawhide' or devel. > > The two packages share the name and python tree files. Upstream has no > desire to rename things in supybot-gribble as this will make it harder > to fold changes back into supybot. There is no great need to run both > at the same time on the same machine. > > In the review I suggested we just let them conflict and setup the > plugins so they would work with either (require /usr/bin/supybot). To > me this seems like an acceptable Conflicts case related to the 'compat > packages' case, except in this case it's 'newer/rawhide/ng version'. > > Thoughts? Flames? > Alternative: Let's upgrade the supybot package in Fedora to use supybot-gribble instead. Thoughts on the pros and cons of that vs a conflicting package? -Toshio
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