I would ask Peter. CCed.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 12:55 AM Randy Barlow <ra...@electronsweatshop.com>
wrote:
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > You don't state the actual conflict anywhere in this mail, so my
> > reply is based on my guess what the problem is.
>
> Hello Zbyszek, thank you for your input!
>
> To clarify, rebar (the Erlang build tool) wants to find the package
> "xmlrpc" in %{_erllibdir}/xmlrpc-*/, and what it finds inside must also
> follow this name. Frankly, I'm pretty new at Erlang, so this is just
> based on my anecdotal evidence of playing with it for several weeks.
>
> So the issue is that my xmlrpc and the one that's already in Fedora both
> "want" to be in that same folder.
>
> I could attempt to rename the package, but this would mean adjusting all
> references to its name internally, as well as references to its name
> externally in ejabberd. I'm not sure how much effort this would be, but
> doing it with sed might not be the best choice because I wouldn't want
> to assume that any use of the string "xmlrpc" should be replaced.
>
> > Let me add another reason for avoiding Conflicts that has become more
> > prominent over time: upgrades.
>
> This is a compelling point that I had not considered. Users from F22 or
> 23 who have ejabberd and the other package will hit a conflict on
> upgrading. I agree that is bad.
>
> > Also under the new bundling guidelines [1] you can bundle the other
> > version. Since the plan is to move to a different dependency soon
> > anyway, this is imho tottally reasonable in this case.
>
> This is a good point too. I think I will invest a little time in seeing
> if I can figure out how to do this today.
>
> Thanks so much for your input. I'm a new Fedora packager and I'm also
> new at Erlang, so I appreciate your perspective!
>
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