[Splashy-devel] Provides field for ubuntu

[Luis]

Ummm...

I was hoping tha the Ubuntu team add userspace-bootsplash as the
keyword that usplash provides. Then both packages provide the same
thing.

They said it themeselves. usplash was meant to be the name of the
specification, not the name of the package/application. Now is too
late, people associate "usplash" with "ubuntu user-space boot splash
system".

Aside from that, we don't provide (yet) all the functionalities that
usplash provides (we are missing minor things). And we are miles away
from usplash in other sense (we do other things better).

Try to suggest to the Ubuntu Devel Team that usplash (their package)
should provide "userspace-bootsplash" and that ubuntu-desktop should
depend on that instead of usplash. That sounds better.

On 5/26/06, Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was seeing the Provides: field in the control file
> of /debian-related/trunk/debian/control and i saw:
>
> Depends: libc6
> Provides: userspace-bootsplash
> Replaces: usplash, debsplash-utils, userspace-bootsplash
> Conflicts: usplash, debsplash-utils, userspace-bootsplash
>
> If i'm not wrong (it was right for upower) in the Provides: we should
> add usplash. Since ubuntu-desktop package has usplash as dependence and
> all the major changes on ubuntu are introduced by dependencies to that
> package.
> In Upower to have ubuntu-desktop + upower packages on my system i had to
> put usplash in Provides field.
>
> Can i do the same for splashy?
>
>
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