On 20 July 2011 05:35, andre999 <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahmad Samir a écrit : >> >> On 19 July 2011 11:45, Ahmad Samir<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> telepathy-farsight has been renamed to telepathy-farstream upstream. >>> It's required by empathy to have call support. However some other >>> packages (telepathy-qt4 and telepathy-call-ui) still use the old >>> -farsight, so renaming the current package in SVN will render those >>> two packages not build-able, until their perspective upstream adapt to >>> the changes. >>> >>> So I'll copy telepathy-farsight to -farstream is SVN and submit it as >>> a separate package, then when it's not needed any more we can add the >>> proper obsoletes against telepathy-farsight. >>> >>> -- >>> Ahmad Samir >>> >> >> FWIW, on further investigation, empathy still checks for >> telepathy-farsight, which doesn't make sense; (I'll try patching it). > > Couldn't we package telepathy-farstream with a provides telepathy-farsight > to get around this problem ? > (As was done with rarian for scrollkeeper.) > > Or are they incompatible ? > > -- > André >
No we can't, because telepathy-farstream isn't API/ABI compatible with telepathy-farsight. -- Ahmad Samir
