flac package incompatibilty

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 22:45:01 UTC 2004


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> > Isn't it worth maintaining compatibility with previous fedora.us 
> > (aka,soon-to-be Fedora Extras) releases?
> 
> Maintaining compatibility with upstream seems more efficient.
> 
> > Else, at least please add
> > Obsoletes: flac-libs <= %epoch:%version
> > Provides: flac-libs = %epoch:%version
> 
> This is the same as trying to obsolete say, random Ximian packages.
> It's a slippery slope I'd prefer not to be on.

However, for this case it would make this problem go away. Unfortunately,
it's not a scalable general answer. :/

Bill





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