Andi Payn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The new behavior is probably better. But this means that a bunch of > > > old inconsistencies that never caused problems before now have to be > > > taken care of. > > > > a new job for distriblint ? > > That sounds like the right place to put it. Maybe just check to see > that no current package obsoletes another current package unless the > two conflict?
actually, olivier think rpmlint is the one that have to do that check > > > 4. Come up with a new policy for provides/obsoletes when replacing > > > old packages. Just versioning the obsoletes will solve 95% of the > > > problems. (If gimp-1.2 and gimp1_3-1.3 both said "Obsoletes: > > > hackgimp < 1.2" instead of "Obsoletes: hackgimp" everything would > > > work fine.) To solve the other 5%, don't ever copy over obsoletes > > > tags from the previous major version (except where it makes sense, > > > of course). > > Does the fact that you excerpted this quote without comment mean that you > agree that this is a good idea? yep
