Re: qtractor moved to Fedora

2012/5/16 Orcan Ogetbil<oget.fedora(a)gmail.com>: > qtractor is now in Fedora, of course without the libmad support. > Brendan Jones prepared a libmad-freeworld package with the libmad > support. This package is analogous to audacity-freeworld as it > conflicts with the Fedora counterpart since the libmad support is not > modular. > > Do we have a standard procedure here at RPMFusion for X to X-freeworld > renames? Do we need to file a new review request? > > In any case we need to remove the qtractor package from RPMFusion > repos on F-17 and later. From the technical perspective, that rename can be done. (all branches). But I would like to avoid using a Conflict here. I don't remember the audacity case, but for a single binary, it would would be better to use alternatives with a higher weight for the freeworld version. Now I really wonder why is that much interesting to complicate the work that much ? Why bother and what to say when users of the mutilated fedora's qtractor will complain when cannot import mp3 ? The -freeworld was previously reserved for a complementary package of an existing fedora version. But in this case I wonder why not to simply override the no replacement policy ? At least a good reason would need to be provided for still obeying this policy.