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

Wed Jul 20 05:35:42 CEST 2011

Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> 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).
+
+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
+