[Mageia-dev] FYI: telepathy-farsight has been renamed to telepathy-farstream upstream

Tue Jul 19 14:31:05 CEST 2011

On 19 July 2011 13:38, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 19 July 2011 11:45, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> 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).
+>
+> --
+> Ahmad Samir
+>
+
+For the sake of not botching the package, I think it'll build/work
+with both telepathy-{farsight,farstream}; the latter being used for
+Empathy call support.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+