When I first submitted sticky-notes-applet, I mentioned that it was almost definitely going to be included in gnome at some point, and therefore in the Mandrake gnome-applets package. So we were going to have to obsolete it at that point.
But at this point, weeks or months later, how likely is anyone to remember that? Hence this confusion. When could have been even worse if the name of the applet had been changed when it was accepted into the main GNOME distribution (as when gnome-sensors becoming gsensors). Then there'd be no file conflict, and no indication that there was a problem at all. Is there a good way to make such notes "stick" so problems don't come up later? For example, does it make sense to put them in the package description: "This applet will become part of GNOME in the future, at which point this package will become obsolete" or something like that? Would it be acceptable to have such a description in a package in the 9.2 release? (By the way, if I knew this would happen well before Mandrake 9.2, I probably wouldn't have submitted it at all, and I'm sure Austin wouldn't have uploaded it--but there was no way of knowing that.) On Wednesday 16 July 2003 02:03, Frederic Crozat wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:05:24 -0400, Austin wrote: > > On 2003.07.15 11:30, Frederic Crozat wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:09:43 +0000, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > >> > Le ven 11/07/2003 à 17:01, Austin Acton a écrit : > >> >> [Contrib-RPM] > >> >> > >> >> --=-=-= > >> >> Name : sticky-notes-applet Relocations: (not > >> >> relocateable) Version : 1.0.11 Vendor: > >> >> MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: > >> >> Fri Jul 11 > >> > >> 18:29:35 2003 > >> > >> > file /usr/lib/stickynotes_applet from install of > >> > sticky-notes-applet-1.0.11-1mdk conflicts with file from package > >> > gnome-applets-2.3.5-1mdk > >> > >> Ok, I'll obsolete it.. > > > > No no, don't have to obsolete it. I shoudln't have even uploaded it. > > Rpmctl seems to be broken so I can't remove it. > > Will fix. > > If people already installed it on their system, we must > obsolete it otherwise gnome-applets will not be able to be upgraded..
