On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:38:50 -0800, Jorge Gallegos wrote: > The package may not come back any time soon, and I actually have no idea > if patching it back from the old sources would be feasible (I haven't > looked to what extent it is broken.) If it does come back in the future > I understand it should be named something else... should that potential > future package _also_ obsolete this one? (I don't think so?) If upstream renames it, too, moving the Obsoletes to that _new_ subpackage doesn't add much value, since it would only affect people who have kept the old package. If upstream doesn't rename it, you can let the package return with a %version-%release higher than what you've specified in the Obsoletes tag. The packaging guidelines section explains that. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct