[612] in athena10
Re: debathena-pidgin-wrapper pre-hardy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Fri Nov 7 22:41:26 2008
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:35:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Greg Price wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:27:45PM -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
>> One option is to make debathena-pidgin-wrapper actually act as
>> debathena-pidgin-or-gaim-wrapper, and have it declare all the Debathena
>> dependencies on either pidgin or gaim, depending on the release (removing
>> the direct dependencies on them from debathena-cluster-software).
>
> I think this is a little more complicated. debathena-pidgin-wrapper
> contains pidgin.debathena, which seems to know about various pathnames
> that look like the rename would have affected them. So we'd have to
> write and test a gaim/pidgin agnostic version.
Yeah, I wasn't meaning to suggest that there wasn't work involved in
making debathena-pidgin-wrapper act as debathena-pidgin-or-gaim-wrapper.
-Tim Abbott
