[rpmlint] obsolete-not-provided and versioned obsoletes

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Mar 12 12:09:33 UTC 2007


On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:11:13PM +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:
> 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?

I think it's a reasonable warning -- not all warnings are errors.

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