flac package incompatibilty

[Mihai Maties]

There is an incompatibility between the flac package from Fedora Core 
development tree and the flac package from fedora.us:
while flac-1.1.0-3.src.rpm from Fedora Core devel tree consists of flac, 
flac-devel and flac-xmms the package from fedora.us splits this further by 
generating the flac-libs package.

The Fedora Core devel tree approach is used by Freshrpms too so currently 
people who use Fedora.us and Freshrpms are affected. For instance I'm 
packaging K3b which requires flac, but if someone is using both the freshrpms 
and fedora.us/stable repositories this happens: 
 
yum detects that k3b needs flac, it installs it from freshrpms(it seems 
newer), but it detects at the same time that libFLAC.so.4 is needed which is 
provided by fedora's flac-libs. Of course when trying to install both 
packages yum fails. An workaround would be to issue "yum --exclude=flac-libs 
install k3b", but this is rather an ugly hack.

I spoke with Matthias Saou (who maintains flac from freshrpms) and he agreed 
to change his package if the flac package from devel tree will be splitted 
into fedora-libs too. 

While this might be a temporary problem between Freshrpms and Fedora.us, 
things will get worse as soon as Fedora Core 2 will be released. I already 
submitted a bug on fedora.us about this issue 
( https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1397 ) but since nobody answered 
I followed Warren Togamy's advise and took the problem in here.


Mihai