BuildRequires on python-abi

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Apr 6 17:33:03 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:04 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:01 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:56 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > > Well, you are encouraging people to put themselves into a situation
> > > where they've got two ABI-incompatible packages with the same NVREA, and
> > > different deps.
> > 
> > Except for the fact that the spec file was written in such a way that
> > the Name would be different, so NEVRA uniqueness would be preserved.
> 
> I think we should probably put it into the guidelines that the spec file
> shouldn't allow the package NAME to change as that breaks looking for it
> in cvs and in bugzilla.

Agreed. I'll add this.

~spot
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