On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 15:01, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 01:21, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > So the question is: should I add "Obsoletes: pkg-devel < $new_version" > >> > to pkg's SPEC? Is this a proper use of "Obsoletes"? > >> > >> Yes. Exactly a right thing to do. > > > > Thanks, Miro. Then, I suggest to add this particular case to the > > documentation. Not sure where though, but FWIW, my first search was > > "drop subpackage" and *not* the "Obsoletes" subsection. > > That case should already be covered by the "replace" part of: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-replacing-existing-packages That's not clear to me. I read that in the first place, and I didn't identify this case either as a rename nor a replacement. A replacement is like bar that obsoletes foo. But here we have foo and foo-something, and at some point the latter is dropped (and not provided in foo). Iñaki _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
