This is about Rawhide (and some parts apply to F23 and older, too).
Again there are zombie packages, which are obsoleted by other packages,
but still live on and even have survived mass-rebuilds. Superfluous and
can lead to breakage (see bottom), too.
"Dead" = a dead.package file in dist git exists, but builds of the package
are still found in the repo(s). Package has not been retired fully yet.
"Undead" = no dead.package file in dist git found.
Dead and all builds obsoleted:
------------------------------
python-twisted-conch
obsoleted by: python-twisted
python-twisted-lore
obsoleted by: python-twisted
python-twisted-mail
obsoleted by: python-twisted
python-twisted-names
obsoleted by: python-twisted
python-twisted-news
obsoleted by: python-twisted
python-twisted-runner
obsoleted by: python-twisted
python-twisted-words
obsoleted by: python-twisted
Undead and all builds obsoleted:
--------------------------------
kde-plasma-milou
obsoleted by: plasma-milou
kwallet
obsoleted by: kwalletmanager
liblxqt-mount
obsoleted by: lxqt-panel
lxshortcut
obsoleted by: libfm
min-metadata-service
obsoleted by: min-cloud-agent
osbs
obsoleted by: osbs-client
php-channel-deepend
obsoleted by: php-deepend-Mockery
php-channel-symfony2
obsoleted by: php-symfony
plasmate
obsoleted by: plasma-sdk
python-XStatic-Angular-Cookies
obsoleted by: python-XStatic-Angular
zeroinstall-injector
obsoleted by: 0install
Examples of how it can break:
1) A mass-rebuilds bumps the Release tag of a semi-dead package, and
it manages to escape the Obsoletes tag in another package. Especially
not funny, if it were software with security issues.
2) Package is listed as being available in the repo, but cannot be
installed:
# dnf list python-twisted-conch
Available Packages
python-twisted-conch.x86_64 12.2.0-4.fc21 fedora
# dnf install python-twisted-conch
Error: package python-twisted-conch-12.2.0-4.fc21.x86_64 requires python-twisted-core >= 12.2.0, but none of the providers can be installed
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)
# repoquery --whatobsoletes python-twisted-conch
python-twisted-0:15.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64
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