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

[andre999]

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