5.1 -> 5.2 move

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Mon Jun 2 18:27:22 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen (smooge at gmail.com) said: 
>> I don't think we have one. We have dealt with the older policy where
>> things conflicted with 5.1 but not 5.0.
>>
>> What exactly are the packages having problems?
> 
> gtkhtml3 was rebased in 5.2, changing ABI. We can ship (in EPEL)
> a gtkhtml38 package, but it will conflict at the file level with
> gtkhtml3 from 5.1 and earlier.
> 
> Bill

I suppose there was a very good reason for the base change, but I 
thought things like this are one of the issues using RHEL was suppose to 
avoid.




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