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

[Rex Dieter]

Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> The problem is that your fftw is version 3.*, so you need to _rename_ 
> your package to fftw3. 
...
>In other distros, fftw is version 2.*, but there 
> is no straight upgrade path from version 2 to version 3, so you can't 
> just upgrade the fftw package without breaking all the programs that 
> depend on it. Most distros I am aware of keep two versions fftw and 
> fftw3, which are able to live side-by-side.

This is not most distros, this is (Fedora) Extras (and soon to be 
Enterprise Extras) in question here, and what you're suggesting would 
break compatibility with them.  I have no intention of doing that.

Let me put it another way (bluntly): it's either the fftw(3) + fftw2 way 
or the highway.  Which would you rather have?

-- Rex