On 5 September 2017 at 00:27, Alexander Ploumistos < alex.ploumis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, > > About ten days ago I asked a question on this list, but I guess on one > hand it was too specific, while on the other it coincided with people > travelling to Flock or being on vacation. As I really want to get the > package in question back in Fedora, I will ask again and I will try to > be more abstract and concise. For anyone interested, there is a link > to the original post at the end of this message. > > Package foo, which depends on library bar for importing a certain type > of files, was retired a couple of releases ago. The library is still > in Fedora, in two different versions, with different functionality > (bar2-2.0.0 & bar-oldsnapshot), but no other package depends on it. > > Since the retirement, both foo and bar saw active development with > both projects sharing a few contributors; foo has had a number of > public releases whereas bar hasn't had any, but there is an unreleased > newer version (bar-3.0.0) in its VCS. > > Up to a specific release, the bar version bundled with foo was > identical with upstream bar; that is no longer the case, as the > bundled library is closer to that of the final public release, while > the upstream version has been tweaked to work with a third program, > which is also included in Fedora, but does not make use of the bar > library. The upstream bar version won't work with foo for the moment. > > I have spoken with the upstream developers and I was told that both > branches will merge back before the bar-3.0.0 public release. > > So what I am asking is this: Is it OK if I (re)introduce two packages, > foo and bar3, obsoleting bar and bar2 at the same time, but using > foo's source for bar or should I opt to keep bar bundled with foo, > until the two different forks are reunited? > > Best regards > Alex > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists. > fedoraproject.org/thread/EMVB3JGM5AZVVO7NA3E7DHJLB32CMJJW/ > > > Given the history there and the intended roadmap from upstream for both projects I'd use foo as the source for bar3 until such time bar gets a 3 release
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