Orphaning Packages: audacious and dependencies

[Hans de Goede]

On 06/11/2009 06:28 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:09:24 -0300, Paulo wrote:
>
>> I would create a symbolic link audacious ->  audacious2, so the previous
>> bin can still be called.
>
> AFAIK, this is not done in Debian/Ubuntu either. The .desktop file has
> been renamed, too, and additionally the Fedora "--vendor fedora" has had
> to be dropped (or else one would need to keep such patches, which deviate
> from upstream, forever). The manual pages have been renamed to "audtool2"
> and "audacious2".
>

I agree, lets just stick with what upstream does and drop the old binary names
completely.

>> I would also call the libs package libs2, so the previous lib package do not
>> need to be removed during the upgrade.
>
> That would create an orphan, an obsolete audacious-libs package which
> is not tied to any current src.rpm package, and which could cause
> problems in the future (such as unresolvable deps).
>

+1

Regards,

Hans