Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-03-03
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 4 18:45:41 UTC 2007
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:18:32 +0100
> bugs.michael at gmx.net (Michael Schwendt) wrote:
]
>> The missing obsoletes is a fundamental problem, not specific to
>> Extras. There is no automatic garbage collection during upgrades.
Do we know of any distribution that handles it better? What does say
Debian due when packages are orphaned?
> So, I could:
>
> - Do nothing. This means people who have bmp-xosd installed will see a
> broken dep and have to manually 'rpm -e bmp-xosd' to get back on track.
> Not nice to make end users have to do that. ;(
>
> - Add a 'obsoletes' to the main xosd package. This would help end
> users, but this package doesn't really provide bmp-xosd anymore, so
> should it have to obsolete it? I guess this is cleaner..
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on the best way to fix this?
Please dont leave broken deps. Obsolete it if there isnt a better way.
Rahul
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