Dependency problems not reported

[Florian La Roche]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:50:00AM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 11/16/05, Florian La Roche <laroche at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > There are packaging problems not being reported by the automatic rawhide report.
> > > The Obsoletes tag is supposed to take care of this removal or upgrades may not
> > > work correctly. Not sure if there's a way to automatically detect that Obsolete
> > > tags are not covering everything they need to.
> >
> > pyrpm can list those "left-over rpms" if you compare to previous
> > releases/trees.
> 
> Does it just confirm that the package is no longer available? I don't
> see how you can script a tool that answers the question "Should have
> this been obsoleted"  Not everything that drops out of rawhide gets
> obsoleted by something.. it can just disappear...without there being a
> packaging problem that needs to be addressed.

Steve is right that obsoletes handling is the only missing thing.
You list the packages that have been dropped and not obsoleted. You
then have to rethink those if they are correct or an additional
Obsoletes: would make sense.

regards,

Florian La Roche