5.1 -> 5.2 move
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Sat Jun 7 20:16:19 UTC 2008
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 07:53:52PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>> But, if not Obsoleting, it won't be updated?
>
> The old gtkhtml3 package will be updated by the new one ...
Indeed.
> The compat-gtkhtml3 package should get installed IF something still
> needs the older library (libgtkhtml-3.8.so.15). BUT ... I don't want
> this compat package to REPLACE the older package, only be installed IF
> REQUIRED when the newer gtkhtml3 is installed.
But in this case user compiled programs not instéalled as rpm packages
will be broken.
> I figured we may as well have the devel file to since the headers are
> named differently, just in case someone needs to compile against the
> older version and it may be that the code does not work with the newer
> version.
Indeed, and especially if it is easy to do it is better to have compat
devel package.
--
Pat
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