[aur-general] Best Practice for switching packages from svn to git

[SpinFlo]

i think if have all VCS package ( -git, -svn, -hg, -bzr etc) :

conflicts=('nameofpackage')
provides=('nameofpackage')

no need add explicit the VCS version in conflicts. for expample like you say

2013/1/11 Allen Li <cyberdupo56 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:30:02AM +0100, Christoph Vigano wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> I'm in the situation that one of my packages switched their VCS from SVN
>> to Git. Is it okay to conflict both the non-SVN and the SVN package at
>> the same time?
>>
>> The package in question is nagstamon-svn, whose upstream made the change
>> to Git. I want to use the following lines in the PKGBUILD:
>>
>> provides=('nagstamon')
>> conflicts=('nagstamon' 'nagstamon-svn').
>>
>> Any opinions towards this?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Christoph
>>
>
> I'm not sure what exactly you're saying.  If nagstamon-svn and
> nagstamon-git both conflicts=('nagstamon'),
>
> P.S. a question I thought of just now. Does listing a package in
> conflicts automatically add it to provides?  I think I've seen/written
> git packages with only a conflicts, but it satisfies dependencies all
> the same.