Hallo.

I want to propose commenting of upgrade protection commands and
provides/obsoletes in the spec file and related scripts.

If it is not done, it is very complicated to be able to check, whether
upgrade protection is still needed or it is completely obsolete.

Yes, we may keep these lines in the spec files forever, but it taints
our spec files, makes them less readable and sometimes even slower.

Proposed:

# Name was used in <=OpenSUSE10 and <=SLES10:
Provide:   oldfoo
Obsoletes: oldfoo

Quick look at our spec files shows that we have lots of protections for
S.u.S.E. Linux 6.2 (1999) -> OpenSUSE 10.3 (2007), but I guess that is
is more obsolete than sufficient.

Few examples:

bibview:
Provides:       bibvw15
* Fri Jul 14 2000 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- fix bug in annotation handling with update to bibview 2.2

dante:
# SuSE series: sec
Provides:       dantesrv
Obsoletes:      dantesrv
* Mon Dec 04 2000 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- update to 1.1.6, new /etc/init.d handling, long RPM names

dx:
Provides:       dxdata
Obsoletes:      dxdata
* Wed Nov 29 2000 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- subpackages renamed: dxdoc => dx-doc; dxdata => dx-data

...

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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