On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:57:18AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Upstream has merged Parse::CPAN::Meta into the CPAN-Meta dist. Normally, I'd > just add appropriate obsoletes/provides, retire perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta and > that would be that. However, the perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta package has an epoch, > which the perl-CPAN-Meta package does not, so in order to avoid > self-obsoletion, I would have to bump epoch in the perl-CPAN-Meta package > too. > I think the obsoletion applies only to package. Not to Provides (RPM symbols). That means it will not obsolete itself. But I did not try it. > Alternatively, I could take up the hint here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrade_paths_%E2%80%94_renaming_or_splitting_packages#Do_I_need_to_Provide_my_old_package_names.3F > > and have the obsolete without the provide. This looks much cleaner, and > there's only one package in Rawhide that requires perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta > explicitly, which is perl-core. So if that dependency was dropped (the > existing dependency on perl-CPAN-Meta will still be there to pull in the > module), all would be well. > We need the dependency for bootstrapping because perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta is perl.spec's subpackage when bootstrapping. But that could be fixed by replaceing perl-core's dependency from perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta to perl(Parse::CPAN::Meta). Another option would be to provide unversioned perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta from perl-CPAN-Meta or version it including the the "1" epoch. Yet another option is to make real perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta sub-package in perl-CPAN-Meta.spec with "1" epoch. But all that makes things more complicated. I would change perl-core's dependency to perl(Parse::CPAN::Meta) and then upgrade perl-CPAN-Meta with obsoleting but without providing perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta. > Should this go to F-25 as well? > No. Removing packages breaks compatibility. -- Petr
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