Michal Marek wrote:
> But if for whatever reason someone needs curl-devel = 7.16.1, should
> this dependency be satisfied by _any_ future version of libcurl-devel?
>
> Obsoleting just curl-devel <= 7.16.1 is a good idea.
And also adding a simple comment, e. g. "curl-devel was last used in
openSU
Matthias Koenig wrote:
> It is stated in
> http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Dependencies
> in the section "Renaming a package", that the old package name in the
> Provides tag should be versioned.
> The example given is:
>
> Name: package
> Version: 1.1
> Requires:
> Provides: pac
Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The library packaging policy forces you to rename curl-devel to
> either libcurl-devel or libcurl4-devel if you want to support development
> with different curl versions. We choose not to and rename it to
> libcurl-devel which will depend on libcur
