Re: libhandy and libhandy1 conflict

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%talktalk.net@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 09:23:39AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > I originally imported libhandy1 because it was fully incompatible with
> > libhandy. In March, libhandy was updated and it's now the same as
> > libhandy1 and they conflict. This prevents the gnome metapackage to
> > be installed.
> >
> > Either libhandy1 should be deleted, or libhandy downgraded to
> > be the previously-compatible version it was before.
> 
> I would say libhandy should be downgraded, as it was wrong to update it
> while libhandy1 was present.  If libhandy (pre-1) is no longer useful it
> can be removed, but it sounds like libhandy has earned a trip to the
> "upstream behaves in a way that makes people need to have multiple
> vesions in pkgsrc" time-out corner....

My memory (must check) was that after upgrading other things libhandy1
no longer had any users therefore it was safe.

Can you spot a libhandy1 user?


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