[Mageia-dev] FYI: telepathy-farsight has been renamed to telepathy-farstream upstream

[Ahmad Samir]

On 20 July 2011 05:35, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
> Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>>
>> On 19 July 2011 11:45, Ahmad Samir<ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> telepathy-farsight has been renamed to telepathy-farstream upstream.
>>> It's required by empathy to have call support. However some other
>>> packages (telepathy-qt4 and telepathy-call-ui) still use the old
>>> -farsight, so renaming the current package in SVN will render those
>>> two packages not build-able, until their perspective upstream adapt to
>>> the changes.
>>>
>>> So I'll copy telepathy-farsight to -farstream is SVN and submit it as
>>> a separate package, then when it's not needed any more we can add the
>>> proper obsoletes against telepathy-farsight.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ahmad Samir
>>>
>>
>> FWIW, on further investigation, empathy still checks for
>> telepathy-farsight, which doesn't make sense; (I'll try patching it).
>
> Couldn't we package telepathy-farstream with a provides telepathy-farsight
> to get around this problem ?
> (As was done with rarian for scrollkeeper.)
>
> Or are they incompatible ?
>
> --
> André
>

No we can't, because telepathy-farstream isn't API/ABI compatible with
telepathy-farsight.

-- 
Ahmad Samir