Re: Reducing broken dependencies in fedora (32) repositories

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Le lundi 09 mars 2020 à 12:11 -0500, Bruno Wolff III a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 18:11:32 +0100,
>   Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:57 PM Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I'm also not sure how you would detect that from the package
> > metadata
> > ... query all packages for their file contents, and then show
> > conflicts when two packages own the same file, but do not
> > explicitly
> > Conflict? I think that's probably too simplistic ...
> 
> I don't think that practice is banned currently, but it would
> probably 
> cut down on mistakes if it were. Having two sources of truth that
> are 
> supposed to be identical, makes it easy for people to make a mistake.

That works fine as long as the packages are generated from the same
srpm. Here you have a case where files were moved from one project to
another, so the maintainers need to decide which is the canonical truth
from now on.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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