Packaging questions about libvisual

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jul 7 12:51:30 UTC 2006


Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> The new version of Amarok needs to update libvisual from 0.2 to 0.4. This
> will break dependencies in libvisual-plugins and gstreamer08-plugins
> (that's what "repoquery --whatrequires libvisual.so.0" says). I have four
> options :
>  1) Warn the maintainers of the dependencies, ask them to try to rebuild
> their packages with the new version, update in devel and FC-5, and ask the
> maintainers to rebuild their packages for version 0.4. That sounds very
> error-prone.
>  2) Update to version 0.4 only in devel, disabling visualisation plugins
>  in
> the new amarok. That's not nice to those who like them.
>  3) Update to version 0.4 only in devel, and update amarok only in devel
> too. That's not nice, amarok is one of these apps for which you always
> want the latest version :)
>  4) Create a compat-libvisual020 package and update in devel and FC5. That
> sounds like the best solution, but may I create this package and import it
> in CVS without review ? Are there guidelines for this type of packages ?
> 
> What do you think is best ?

IMO, If possible, 1, else a combination of 4 and 1, ie, dropping
compat-libvisual (or whatever it's named) when/if all other dependancies
are updated to libvisual-0.4.

-- Rex




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