On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> latte-integrale
> 4ti2-0:1.5-3.fc18.i686 isn't obsoleted
> 4ti2 < 0:1.5-1 obsoleted by 4ti2-0:1.5-10.fc20.i686
>
> Indeed. "latte-integrale" is the src.rpm name. It builds a "4ti2"
> binary rpm with an EVR higher than the Obsoletes tag. Checking the
> spec file in git:
>
> %package -n 4ti2
> # This can be removed once Fedora 18 reaches EOL.
> Provides: 4ti2 = %{version}-%{release}
> Obsoletes: 4ti2 < 1.5-1
>
> And there are many more like that. We're really bad here.
> I don't even understand that spec file. _Why_ does it add such
> Provides (those are automatic for %name anyway) and self-Obsoletes?
Once upon a time, there was a package named 4ti2. It's upstream was
here: http://4ti2.de/. The last release of that package was version
1.3.2. That version was packaged for Fedora, and built from a source
RPM with the 4ti2 name.
In process of time, one of the 4ti2 developers joined the faculty of a
new university, and became part of a project named LattE. This team
needed a tool like 4ti2, but needed some new development to happen.
So in process of time https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~latte/software.php
became the new upstream for both 4ti2 and LattE (in its
"latte-integrale" release). Therefore, when latte-integrale was
packaged for Fedora, it became necessary to retire the old 4ti2
package and make the new latte-integrale package build 4ti2. So the
packager who submitted the new package (that would be me) read this
page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Renaming.2FReplacing_Existing_Packages.
If I read it wrong, I'm very sorry. I will do penance at the Altar of
Correct Obsoletes. But, other than the unnecessary Provides, I still
don't see how this is wrong. The old site is no longer maintained;
there will be no new releases. So even "Obsoletes: 4ti2 < 1.4-1"
would have been correct. Or are you saying that even the Obsoletes
tag is unnecessary since only the source RPM name changed, but not the
binary RPM name?
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Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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