[packagers] Re: incompatible fftw-3-1.1 kde-redhat packaging

[Rex Dieter]

> 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.

Just subscribed, and discovered this post, and it's the first I've heard 
of any problems.  My apologies for any incompatibility.

We just "borrowed" fftw from Fedora Extras, and rebuilt it for rhel4. 
It's a dependency for libofa, which in turn, is a dependency for 
libtunepimp-0.5.x.  Extras packages fftw2 as well., so would an 
acceptable fix be to include fftw2 @ kde-redhat as well? (AFAICT, it 
should provide the the proper shlibs/sonames you're looking for).

-- Rex