On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:00 AM, BJ Dierkes > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Where the Provides is at least '1' higher than the conflict. That said, >> this does not fly in Fedora… as there are explicit package guidelines that >> state that nothing in Fedora/EPEL can hard conflict with another package. >> > > It took me a while to understand what this means, but seems this is > perfectly ok also with our current way of doing things. This just > means that Fedora/EPEL will only stick to a specific Drizzle version > per Fedora/EPEL release. It's what I expect all distros to do anyway. > > So for instance if Fedora 14 had drizzle7, it will never have > drizzle7.1. Next version of Fedora (is it 16?) would possibly choose > drizzle7.1 and never ship drizzle7. EPEL would do the same, until > drizzle is included in RHEL after which EPEL cannot contain any > drizzle version. It seems all of this is quite ok (and would be the > case also if we changed name, version to be drizzle-7.1). >
I understand the reasoning behind doing the versioning this way. Buy I have to tell you, going this route makes quite a headache for distros.. at least with Fedora in mind. This is because every package in Fedora must be named based on the source. Therefore, drizzle7 in Fedora is a complete separate package (git repo, package in pkgdb, etc) than drizzle7.1. So once drizzle7.1 was destined for Fedora, the following would have to happen: * drizzle7 would have to be EOL'd * drizzle7.1 would have to go through a package review * drizzle7.1 branches (git repo, package in pkgdb, etc) would all need to be requested and created by Fedora admins * Everything that requires drizzle7 would have to be updated/auditted/etc to avoid breaking anything On the last note, if the package just 'Requires: drizzle' then there isn't a problem… but new package maintainers may not know that… and would do what everyone else does which is to Require the actual package name. As a Fedora maintainer… this type of upstream model would really drive me crazy and would push me toward not wanting to maintain the packages. --- derks > henrik > > -- > [email protected] > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
