[Mageia-dev] Mediawiki packaging changes

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Oliver Burger wrote:

> Am 09.07.2012 11:27, schrieb nicolas vigier:
>> Maybe you can rename mediawiki-minimal to mediawiki and package
>> mediawiki-math. And make mediawiki obsolete mediawiki-minimal<  1.18
>> and mediawiki-math obsolete mediawiki<  1.18, so that the upgrade works.
>> 
> Yep.
> I didn't think about that. But it's the best way imho.
> So the package names will be upstream names and we won't break existing 
> installations!

Obsoletes are nice, but the provides are the tricky parts. Someone who 
has mediawiki installed (with math support) won't get the 
mediawiki-math extension package after the upgrade.


     Christiaan