From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3 Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:02:48 +0200 Message-ID: <46DC05F8.7000709@op5.se> References: <7vodglr32i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46DA5F33.2020005@zytor.com> <85odgltrtj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <46DA88EF.7080103@zytor.com> <20070902133803.1b46f599.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <7v4picpvgq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46DBF0BB.3070605@op5.se> <868x7nj482.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 03 15:02:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISBZv-000234-HF for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:02:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751551AbXICNCv (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:02:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752094AbXICNCu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:02:50 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:49757 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751523AbXICNCu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:02:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201B9194390; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:02:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HiTqke-9waq3; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:02:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.178]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A512319400A; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 15:02:48 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) In-Reply-To: <868x7nj482.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Andreas Ericsson writes: > >> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Assuming that we do not give the old git-p4import script >>> packaged in "git-p4 package", would the following patch be all >>> that is needed, or do we need other things in the spec file? >>> >>> -- snipsnap clipcrap -- >>> +Obsoletes: git-p4 >> That depends. If packages outside of git requires the git-p4 package >> to function then this will not suffice and a line saying >> >> Provides: git-p4 >> >> would have to be added instead. > > Not instead, but in addition IIRC (it obsoletes the package and > provides the feature). But that would be nonsensical if the outside > package indeed requires git-p4 and we don't have it in our current > RPM: the purpose of dependencies is to not have things break silently, > and lying about what we provide would be wrong. > No, it really is instead. A package obsoleting one of the features it provides itself would be insane. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231