On Apr 6, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:32:44 -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> Along those lines, if it looks like a package needs to depend on
>> fink-
>> obsolete-packages, I'm putting my vote in for adding that dependency
>> when you modify the description. (Although I see AKH just posted a
>> good argument for not doing that if the obsolete package doesn't have
>> its own info file.)
>
> "obsolete" has the technical meaning of "has dependency on f-o-p".
> This
> is just about adding an obvious Description for these technically
> obsolete packages. There are lots of other packages that have newer
> alternatives, but may require various changes to switch to them, so
> the
> old ones are not as definitely "no reason to be using this old thing".
> So if a package got renamed or diffused into another package, the old
> name would be an obsolete one because there is no reason to continue
> to
> use it. The old package is just a dummy pointing to the new one. But
> if
> there is an old library-version (libgettext3-{dev,shlibs} vs
> libgettext8-{dev,shlibs}), the old one is still a real separate set of
> files and completely appropriate to use in certain cases due to binary
> linking and such.
While I agree that it is necessary to keep around the -shlibs for old
library versions, I guess I'm thinking that there should be a hint to
developers that the -dev splitoff they are depending on has been
superseded. (This isn't always obvious from the package names - see
libpng or expat.)
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