On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:36 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:34 PM Otto Urpelainen <otu...@iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > Hans de Goede kirjoitti 1.6.2021 klo 21.02:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 6/1/21 6:20 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > >> Hello all.
> > >>
> > >> doxbox-staging is trying to overwrite the regular dosbox package:
> > >>
> > >> Installing:
> > >> dosbox-staging x86_64 0.76.0-2.fc34 fedora
> > >> 1.4 M
> > >> replacing dosbox.x86_64 0.74.3-7.fc34
> > >>
> > >> From its SPEC[1]:
> > >>
> > >> # This package is a drop-in replacement for dosbox
> > >> Provides: dosbox = %{version}-%{release}
> > >> Obsoletes: dosbox < 0.74.4
> > >>
> > >> Is this Okay? These packages has different maintainers. According to the
> > >> Fedora packaging guidelines, one package cannot introduce conflicts with
> > >> another.
> > >
> > > This is intentional, regular dosbox is more-or-less (*) unmaintained
> > > upstream so we have decided to switch to dosbox-staging, also see the
> > > Package Review for dosbox staging:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1884608
> > >
> > > As such dosbox-staging is intended as a replacement for the regular
> > > dosbox (and it is fully compatible with the regular dosbox). This was
> > > coordinated with the dosbox owner, but we have forgotten to actually
> > > retire dosbox, sorry about that. I'll retire dosbox in rawhide right away.
> >
> > I think it is great that Fedora now has dosbox-staging and arrow keys
> > work again. Many games were quite annoying to play without them. And
> > there are other improvements as well.
> >
> > But the complaint I have about this process is that, if you use the
> > default dosbox-staging config, quite many games that actually ran with
> > dosbox crash on dosbox-staging startup. That problem should be patched
> > around somehow before dosbox can go. See Bugzilla discussion [1].
> >
> > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933849#c4
> >
>
> As an aside, I'm slightly confused why dosbox wasn't just replaced
> with dosbox-staging with the same packaging...
Different upstreams (different teams, etc).
F.
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