[Development] Co-installation & library naming rules

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 24 de setembro de 2012 08.52.42, Ziller Eike wrote:
> > The reason why we want to be able to co-install Qt4 and Qt5 is because
> > all packages in Fedora are expected to follow the FHS as close as
> > possible and the packaging rules state that no packages are allowed to
> > conflict with each other.
> 
> "- unversioned applications, like assistant, linguist, qdbus,
> 		  qdbusviewer"
> 
> Wouldn't that also conflict this rule? Or are these expected to be in its
> own package separate from the "versioned" parts of Qt?

Packagers are expected to split them into separate packages and allow 
installing the Qt 4 or Qt 5 versions (probably the latest, the 5 one). 
Assistant, Linguist, qdbus, qdbusviewer are simple tools that do not depend on 
a specific Qt version. They are capable of reading old files and saving them 
back, or don't operate at all on files. In fact, Designer could be in this 
category too, if we don't care about Qt 3 compatibility anymore.

When we had an incompatible change for Assistant, we released the previous 
version as a separate tool for those who needed it (assistant-adp).

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