On Wed, Mar 12, 2025, at 2:17 PM, Peter Oliver wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, Michel Lind wrote: > >> When rolling out the rebuild of Emacs 30.1 in CentOS Hyperscale SIG, we >> noticed package installation failures on hosts that have emacs-terminal >> installed > > Hmm. In the unlikely event someone actually depends on emacs-terminal, > maybe a failure is what they would want? > > I think it was incorrect that emacs-terminal depended on a specific > version of the emacs package. Perhaps the answer is to briefly > resurrect emacs-terminal such that it depends on any version of emacs. > It could then be dropped again, staying on people’s systems forever if > that’s what they want. > Unpinning it to a specific Emacs version works for me too.
> OTOH, perhaps it isn’t worth the bother. I was surprised when something broke in my rollout, so.. among the wider installed base of Fedora I suspect people might be tripped up. Part of the problem, I think, is that the name is innocuous enough, people might have installed it when they don't need to, then leave it around, then get surprised when it blocks an update. Best regards, -- _o) Michel Lind _( ) identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2 README: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Salimma#README -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
