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+ <B>Christiaan Welvaart</B>
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+ <I>Thu Dec 27 17:27:33 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
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+&gt;<i> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Charles A Edwards &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">CAE at eslrahc.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:54:16 +0000
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Pascal Terjan wrote:
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+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Or fix the package to not use a tilde in provides :)
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> This is an automatic provides from the version in pkg-config file
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Then why not use
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> define _provides_exceptions
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> This provides is correct and may be used by other packages, I see no
+</I>&gt;<i> reason to remove it
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Old rpm accepts it
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> New rpm accepts it and handles it slightly better
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I don't really see a reason to forbid installing the package with an
+</I>&gt;<i> old version rpm if it was built with the new rpm given that the
+</I>&gt;<i> produced rpm is exactly the same apart from this added
+</I>&gt;<i> rpmlib(TildeInVersions) fake dependency and it would work perfectly
+</I>&gt;<i> fine without it.
+</I>
+AFAICT a Requires: pkgconfig(ftgl) &lt; 2.1.3 will be rejected by old rpm but
+matched by new rpm. We may need to backport this feature.
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+ Christiaan
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