On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:34 PM Otto Urpelainen <otu...@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> Hans de Goede kirjoitti 1.6.2021 klo 21.02:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 6/1/21 6:20 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> >> Hello all.
> >>
> >> doxbox-staging is trying to overwrite the regular dosbox package:
> >>
> >> Installing:
> >> dosbox-staging x86_64 0.76.0-2.fc34 fedora
> >> 1.4 M
> >> replacing dosbox.x86_64 0.74.3-7.fc34
> >>
> >> From its SPEC[1]:
> >>
> >> # This package is a drop-in replacement for dosbox
> >> Provides: dosbox = %{version}-%{release}
> >> Obsoletes: dosbox < 0.74.4
> >>
> >> Is this Okay? These packages has different maintainers. According to the
> >> Fedora packaging guidelines, one package cannot introduce conflicts with
> >> another.
> >
> > This is intentional, regular dosbox is more-or-less (*) unmaintained
> > upstream so we have decided to switch to dosbox-staging, also see the
> > Package Review for dosbox staging:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1884608
> >
> > As such dosbox-staging is intended as a replacement for the regular dosbox
> > (and it is fully compatible with the regular dosbox). This was coordinated
> > with the dosbox owner, but we have forgotten to actually retire dosbox,
> > sorry about that. I'll retire dosbox in rawhide right away.
>
> I think it is great that Fedora now has dosbox-staging and arrow keys
> work again. Many games were quite annoying to play without them. And
> there are other improvements as well.
>
> But the complaint I have about this process is that, if you use the
> default dosbox-staging config, quite many games that actually ran with
> dosbox crash on dosbox-staging startup. That problem should be patched
> around somehow before dosbox can go. See Bugzilla discussion [1].
>
> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933849#c4
>
As an aside, I'm slightly confused why dosbox wasn't just replaced
with dosbox-staging with the same packaging...
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