[rpmlint] obsolete-not-provided and versioned obsoletes
Jens Petersen
petersen at redhat.com
Mon Mar 12 04:11:13 UTC 2007
Hi,
rpmlint currently marks obsoletes without provides as errors in its
output. However some obsoletes are really just a convenience for
upgrades, etc. For example scim obsoletes some old iiimf packages but
it surely does not provide iiimf.
The scim package has versioned obsoletes, and I do not think that it
should provide the obsoleted iiimf packages.
Should rpmlint be updated to only warn about versioned obsoletes without
provides?
Jens
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