obsoleting -selinux subpackages
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Jun 5 15:16:47 UTC 2008
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Why would the Provides: be necessary? The Obsoletes: should make sure
> that the cyphesis-selinux package gets removed, and later attempts to
> install/upgrade the no-longer-valid cyphesis-selinux package should fail.
That would break scripts etc that assume the cyphesis-selinux package is still
available (either as a real package, or a Provides somewhere else). Why
would it be a good thing to intentionally cause this breakage?
We have documented procedures how to handle case like this, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages
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