[arch-dev-public] [core] lzo and pkg-config

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Jud <jud at judfilm.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:38:04 -0600
> "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Am Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:25:08 -0600
>> > schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >> If no one minds, I think I will rename pkg-config today. Andy, do
>> >> you care if I do that?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I wouldn't spend time on that until there's an update coming. But if
>> > you have the time go on and do it.
>> >
>> > But please add provides=('old-fooname') wherever you make changes to
>> > not break packages from community repos and AUR. That saves us also
>> > the rebuilds.
>> >
>> > Is it enough to "svn rename/mv foo-new" and commit or do we have to
>> > svn del/add the pkg?
>>
>> No a rename is preferred as it should, in theory, retain history from
>> when it was named something else.
>
> Just so this is not forgotten about
>
> pkconfig > pkg-config
> lzo2 > lzo
> libsigc++2.0 > libsigc++
> gimp-help-2 > gimp-help
> freetype2 > freetype
>
> iproute > iproute2
> sqlite3 > sqlite

Any of the maintainers interested in making this change, don't forget
to add replaces/provides for the previous package. Or skip the
provides and rebuild all deps, but that seems messy.

> kernel26 > kernel

Lets hold off on this one for a bit, as they were talking about
redoing kernel versioning, and that might be a big issue.