Re: [PATCH setup 00/11] Improve handling of specifying an obsolete package to be installed on the command line

2019-12-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/3/2019 3:44 PM, Jon Turney wrote: > On 01/12/2019 19:31, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 8/1/2019 12:05 PM, Jon Turney wrote: >>> e.g. setup -q -g -P python3-lxml (which used to do something useful) >>> currently gets you an (empty) python3-lxml package, which will be replaced >>> by python36-lxml

Re: [PATCH setup 00/11] Improve handling of specifying an obsolete package to be installed on the command line

2019-12-03 Thread Jon Turney
On 01/12/2019 19:31, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/1/2019 12:05 PM, Jon Turney wrote: e.g. setup -q -g -P python3-lxml (which used to do something useful) currently gets you an (empty) python3-lxml package, which will be replaced by python36-lxml (which obsoletes it) on the next setup run. After this

Re: [PATCH setup 00/11] Improve handling of specifying an obsolete package to be installed on the command line

2019-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/1/2019 12:05 PM, Jon Turney wrote: > e.g. setup -q -g -P python3-lxml (which used to do something useful) > currently gets you an (empty) python3-lxml package, which will be replaced > by python36-lxml (which obsoletes it) on the next setup run. After this > change, python36-lxml is installed

[PATCH setup 00/11] Improve handling of specifying an obsolete package to be installed on the command line

2019-08-01 Thread Jon Turney
e.g. setup -q -g -P python3-lxml (which used to do something useful) currently gets you an (empty) python3-lxml package, which will be replaced by python36-lxml (which obsoletes it) on the next setup run. After this change, python36-lxml is installed instead. See also the dicusssion at