[Pkg-fonts-devel] font-hosny-amiri: package should be renamed to fonts-hosny-amiri
أحمد المحمودي
aelmahmoudy at sabily.org
Sun Feb 13 17:56:44 UTC 2011
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:39:23PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:53:53 +0200
> > Old package name is still provided as a transitional package that depends on
> > the new package, so, if the old package exists on a system it will be
> > upgraded and hence pull the new package name. I don't see that this is a
> > reason for using Conflicts/Provides.
>
> Old package would _still exist_ if new one would be pulled via dependency
> in that case, right? And new package should not depends on old package name,
> since old package would not be provided in the future releases.
---end quoted text---
Exactly, the old package will still exist, but it can be safely removed
after upgrade. And indeed the new package does *NOT* depend on the old
package name.
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