Iñaki Ucar wrote: > 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). Originally I'd considered that the *main* package was effectively replacing -devel, though on second thought it's not a full replacement (ie, only Obsoletes without Provides). -- Rex -- Rex _______________________________________________ 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
