At Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:20:35 +0200, Michał Masłowski wrote: > > c. When forking a package for technical reasons, name the fork > > with the '-parabola' suffix (example: patching makepkg as > > mentioned above would be pacman-parabola). > > Not ok, as explained earlier. Doing (d) informs users that we change > the package without adding any compatibility or upgrade issues of > renaming and is simpler. Debian-based distros change their equivalent > of pkgrel. > > Or is there any case of "forking" that results in incompatible packages > that should not have replaces= or provides= arrays listing the original > package?
Changing pkgname isn't ideal, but the Arch/Parabola policy is generally "ship packages as the original author intended them, not as we indent them." If we are changing the behavior of the software, I don't like shipping it with the original name. That said, this is the point I am most flexible on. -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
