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

Jud jud at judfilm.net
Wed Apr 15 08:00:28 EDT 2009


On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:19:28 -0500 (EST)
Eric Bélanger <belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 

Any news on lzo and the others?


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