flac package incompatibilty

[Bill Nottingham]

Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> >>I spoke with Matthias Saou (who maintains flac from freshrpms) and he 
> >>agreed to change his package if the flac package from devel tree will be 
> >>splitted into fedora-libs too. 
> >
> >No -libs package was created because there is no -libs package
> >in upstream flac. Hence, I really don't think one should be added.
> 
> Isn't it worth maintaining compatibility with previous fedora.us 
> (aka,soon-to-be Fedora Extras) releases?

Maintaining compatibility with upstream seems more efficient.

> Else, at least please add
> Obsoletes: flac-libs <= %epoch:%version
> Provides: flac-libs = %epoch:%version

This is the same as trying to obsolete say, random Ximian packages.
It's a slippery slope I'd prefer not to be on.

Bill