[Fedora-packaging] Obsoletes in renamed rubygem a blocker?

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "JvM" == Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> writes:

JvM> More details are in the review request[1], and I would appreciate
JvM> your opinion on this Obsoletes header becoming a blocker.

I personally think that such things should indeed not be part of the
Fedora repository.  FPC actually discussed something similar to this;
the results of that are Use of Epochs section:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_Epochs

Basically, you can carry over an epoch from a non-Fedora repository if
it was "publicly accessible".  I see package renames as essentially the
same situation, although they certainly aren't as permanent as epochs so
I can see room for considering them differently, and I'm sure we'd
consider a proposal if someone wrote it up and submitted it.

Finally, I really don't understand why there's a significant issue over
this anyway.  What would you have to do if any other package in your
private repository entered the distribution under a different name?  You
wouldn't petition the maintainer to add an Obsoletes/Provides pair for
you, you'd generate one yourself in your private repository and then
transition to the Fedora package.

 - J<