On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:04:08 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
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https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Conflicts/
Explicit approval of FPC is only needed in undocumented cases. This is a
documented case (text from the page you've linked):
"In the specific case where multiple software components generate identically
named (but incompatible) binaries, Fedora Packagers should make every effort to
convince the upstreams to rename the binaries to resolve the conflict.
However, if neither upstream is willing to rename the binaries to resolve the
conflict, AND the binaries are not viable candidates for alternatives or
environment modules (incompatible runtimes), as long as there are no clear cases
for both packages to be installed simultaneously, explicit Conflicts are
permitted at the packager’s discretion. Both packages must carry Conflicts in
this case."
In the linked case:
1. I don't see any attempt to talk to upstream at all, but maybe it happened
That seems backwards, because simply sitting it out then would lead to
implicit permission to go ahead with a Conflicts tag _instead_ of trying
to contact the upstream projects.
2. jday does not explicitly clonflict with netatalk
I suggest to reopen the bug and assign it to jday.
The ancient ticket for jday is from the F19 era:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/797815
Reopened.