Re: Renaming old jakarta-commons-xyz

David Walluck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.jpackage.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/20/2010 03:19 PM, Ralph Apel wrote:
> The discussion is about my (B)R in dsol-basic
> 
> - I didn't want to require apache-commons-math, because this is still in
> devel
> - I didn't want to require jakarta-commons-math, because - although
> j-c-m is provided by a-c-m -  I thought it didn't make sense to require
> a name which is intended to be obsoleted
> 
> But you may be right: simply (B)R apache-commons-math in this case and
> other new packages...

If you're moving apache-* anyway, then this makes sense.

Otherwise, requiring jakarta-commons-math isn't so bad (even in a new
package). At least it's easier to add a Provides then to go around
changes any packages that have a BR on jakarta-*.

-- 
Sincerely,

David Walluck
<[email protected]>
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