[Fedora-packaging] Drafts for next Tuesday

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Mar 20 09:00:15 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:22:39AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > Register VirtualProvides (Patrice Dumas) :
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ProvidesList
> -1
> 
> Not clear enough. Many packages apply virtual provides not covered by
> these lists (e.g. alternate package names, obsoletes/provides, legacy
> provides etc.) This proposal doesn't specify which class of virtual
> provides it is aiming at.

Thanks for the input, I completly forgot about those since they are
outside of the scope, though alternate names is at the limit... I am indeed
focused on alternate functionalities or similar provides. I'll update.

--
Pat




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