Re: how to correctly remove a subpackage ?

2020-06-13 Thread josef radinger
the package in question is tempest, which had a subpackage tempest- gnome-screensaver. gnome-screensaver is no more, therefore i would assume that obsoleting tempest-gnome-screensaver does no harm. josef On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 18:45 +0100, Ian McInerney wrote: > Can you be more specific about the

Re: how to correctly remove a subpackage ?

2020-06-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le vendredi 12 juin 2020 à 19:31 +0200, josef radinger a écrit : Hi, > we have > X-1 > X-a-1 (dependent on X and Y) > X-b-1 (dependent on X) > > now the dependency Y is removed from rawhide and i create a new > version > 2 of package X without the dependency on Y and thus no subpackage X- > a-

Re: how to correctly remove a subpackage ?

2020-06-12 Thread Ian McInerney
Can you be more specific about the package structure (or provide a link to the spec)? Does the new package X-2 (or X-b-2) still contain the same functionality that was present inside X-a-1, so if a user installs one of those, they get the same program just without the dependency? -Ian On Fri,

how to correctly remove a subpackage ?

2020-06-12 Thread josef radinger
hi, i would like to know how to remove a subpackage from the distribution. eg. there is a package X, which is in rawhide with version 1 and has subpackages a and b. we have X-1 X-a-1 (dependent on X and Y) X-b-1 (dependent on X) now the dependency Y is removed from rawhide and i create a new