Re: Dropping -devel subpackage

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On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 11:32 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Quick question not found in the docs. There's a package with a -devel
> subpackage. No package depends on this -devel and upstream removes the
> development files in the new release, so I just dropped the -devel
> subpackage.
>
> Now, it's improbable, but if the old -devel subpackage was installed,
> then "dnf upgrade" complains, obviously:
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-f8c8592ad6
>
> So the question is: should I add "Obsoletes: pkg-devel < $new_version"
> to pkg's SPEC? Is this a proper use of "Obsoletes"?
>

Yes, this is correct usage of Obsoletes.

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