[packagers] BEWARE: fftw interference with kde-redhat

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:

> I suddenly find fftw from apt.kde-redhat.org trying to override my version of
> fftw from RPMforge. The reason is that fftw version 3.1.1 suddenly appears
> from kde-redhat with the package name "fftw", where version 3 everywhere else
> is called "fftw3". There is no simple upgrade from fftw version 2 to fftw
> version 3, because the API has changed.
> 
> So, all have to be aware that kde-redhat is not compatible with RPMforge at
> the moment. If you use kde-redhat, things will break if you upgrade fftw!!
> 
> I hope the kde-redhat maintainers will change their package naming scheme ASAP
> so they use the package name "fftw3" for fftw version 3.*. I am not sure why
> they include fftw in their distribution. Probably because some program in kde
> needs it. That program breaks with RPMforge, and soon other stuff will too.

Thanks Morten, shouldn't we make the kde-redhat people aware ? It might 
have just been an oversight. And we can't fix it anyway, only they can.

Kind regards,
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