Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (218 mails)

[Dave Plater <dplater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/29/2009 01:29 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:16:26 +0200,
> Dave Plater wrote:
>   
> > On 12/29/2009 12:31 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >     
> > > At Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:21:48 +0200,
> > > Dave Plater wrote:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Hi, I maintain the rosegarden4 package in multimedia:apps and I'm busy
> > > > updating it to the latest version which I've named rosegarden-qt4 due to
> > > > the fact that it's no longer a kde3 app and has become a stand alone
> > > > qt4.5 app.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > Just wondering why you do you need to rename.
> > > The name rosegarden4 itself doesn't imply any KDE dependency at all...
> > >
> > >
> > > Takashi
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > I'm changing it to rosegarden4, I used rosegarden-qt4 for testing it
> > through alpha to beta and from what I can see from rosegarden user and
> > devel lists and a person who was doing alpha testing on my openSUSE
> > version it's ready for the devel project. It fixes bnc #545532 as well.
> > It seems that package renaming doesn't work if there is a version in the
> > main os repository with the same name as the old devel one.
> > Just out of interest why was it named rosegarden4 instead of rosegarden
> > like the upstream package.
> >     
> The reason is historical.  There was the old rosegarden package in the
> past coexisting with version 4.  Because rosegarden 4.x was unstable
> at the beginning, we didn't want to drop the older stable.
>
>
> Takashi
>   
You should take the new rosegarden4 for a test drive, if you have time,
the developers have done a complete rewrite for most of the package.
Regards
Dave P
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