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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497646 --- Comment #2 from Jussi Lehtola <[email protected]> 2009-04-27 03:13:55 EDT --- (In reply to comment #1) > The liberation-fonts provides does not exist in Fedora 11. This is similar to > what was done to other font packages. So you can not install a package that > depends on liberation-fonts in F11, and you can not update a system to F11 if > it includes a package depending on liberation-fonts not replaced by a new > package with fixed requires > > This was an intentional choice to force packagers to take into account the new > F11 package layout. > > However F11 itself should not include such a package, and the upgrade path > works for pure Fedora packages, so it s NOTABUG I don't think that's a valid point: if you have a F10 system with some package requiring liberation-fonts, it will not be removed if the package that required it no longer requires it. However, if the new F11 package requires the new liberation-fonts-subpackage, you will end up with a file clash, which is not what is supposed to happen. "Forcing" other maintainers is not a good thing if it means that upgrades don't work automatically. At least for people wanting to yum upgrade this is a pain in the ass. Now that F11 is going gold soon, I think you SHOULD put in the obsoletes, since every package that has already been built in F11 has taken the renamal into account- -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
