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

Wed Jul 20 14:08:42 CEST 2011

On 20 July 2011 05:35, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+No we can't, because telepathy-farstream isn't API/ABI compatible with
+telepathy-farsight.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+