On 05/24/2010 07:38 PM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
dirac-doc has been in packman since 2007, I noticed that dirac-devel from opensuse was installed along with packmans libdirac-devel and dirac-doc on my system when I had fixed a dirac build problem. I took a sledge hammer approach and conflicted the two packman packages with our dirac-devel which was rejected. I assume from your reply and previous comment that I should split off a doc subpackage for opensuse called dirac-doc which would solve my problem? Or should I request packman merge their doc package into their devel one. Packman provides libdirac-devel and dirac-doc and opensuse provides dirac-devel which contains the contents of dirac-doc.
Either way is fine I guess. Let's ask the Packman maintainer (Tony Graffy AFAICS, CC'd) why the package is the way it is on Packman. There should be a way to merge both versions into one canonical version in Factory again.
cu Ludwig
I've split off the docs in dirac-doc which is the same name as the packman package, libdirac-devel is a more apt name than dirac-devel and now the two devel packages contain the same files. I've used provides and obsoletes to prevent the two packages from being installed simultaneously and have submitted to factory. It's a pity that the package wasn't named the same as the already existing packman package when it was created. I had a similar problem with opensuse ladspa, which contains most plugins in one package, and packman individual ladspa plugins but I don't see them in packman factory so maybe some have been dropped. There were one or two which don't exist in opensuse. I haven't that much packaging experience so I'm very much open to guidance from more experienced packagers. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org