obsoleting -selinux subpackages

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Jun 5 15:22:28 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:16:47PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> 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?

It seems to me that in some case (and here it could be such a case) it
is acceptable not to be backward compatible, here in order to have the 
stand-alone cyphesis-selinux package completly disappear, and avoid
inflating the number of provides.
 
--
Pat




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