Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 05/14/2012 10:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I recently converted mysql-connector-java from arch to noarch (it used >> to use GCJ to build, now it doesn't). Martin Cermak pointed out to me >> that if you had the debuginfo subpackage installed, and you upgrade, >> the old debuginfo will still be there even though it's now irrelevant. >> Is this a bug, and if so what should I do about it? > Hmm. I'm inclined to say that we ought to resolve this either in > anaconda or preupgrade by running some sort of "cleanup" script that > looks for orphan debuginfo and flushes them down the drain, as opposed > to carrying Obsoletes. Note that the case Martin was concerned about was a plain old "yum update" of the package, not an OS-wide upgrade. I'm unsure to what extent yum knows about debuginfo, but that's where smarts would need to be added to address his concern. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
