[Fedora-packaging] Use of conflicts in package splitups

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 15:05 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Conflicts says:
> 
> | If you find yourself in a situation where you feel that your package has to
> | conflict with another package (either explicitly or implicitly), but does
> | not fit the documented accepted cases above, then you need to make your case
> | to the Fedora Packaging Committee.
> 
> I guess here is such a case:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=266261
> 
> knm_new-fonts was split up from fonts-japanese, therefore it conflicts with an 
> older version for fonts-japanese. I have also two review requests (vbetool 
> and radeontool), that are splitups from pm-utils, do they need to conflict 
> with the old version of pm-utils, too?

These sound like reasonable uses of conflicts to me

Jeremy