[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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