On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:22 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
> While it is most times a good idea to add the "Provides:"
> lines for all obsoletes as well, we should not just add them
> to all of them. Especially not if nobody found them missing
> for many years by now.
Note that when using properly versioned Obsoletes/Provides [0], loops
involving those are almost nonexistent. Unversioned Obsoletes/Provides
is pretty rarely the right thing to do, as they match *all* versions.
And of course, if the thing obsoleted is not actually provided in a
compatible way by the new package but is just made obsolete by it, the
provides shouldn't be added at all.
[0] eg. Provides: foo = %{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes: foo < $first_V-R_where_above_provides_appeared
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