[rpmlint] obsolete-not-provided and versioned obsoletes
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Mar 12 12:09:33 UTC 2007
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:11:13PM +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:
> rpmlint currently marks obsoletes without provides as errors in its
> output. However some obsoletes are really just a convenience for
> upgrades, etc. For example scim obsoletes some old iiimf packages but
> it surely does not provide iiimf.
> The scim package has versioned obsoletes, and I do not think that it
> should provide the obsoleted iiimf packages.
> Should rpmlint be updated to only warn about versioned obsoletes without
> provides?
I think it's a reasonable warning -- not all warnings are errors.
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