Re: how to correctly remove a subpackage ?

[josef radinger <cheese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the package in question is tempest, which had a subpackage tempest-gnome-screensaver. gnome-screensaver is no more, therefore i would assume that obsoleting tempest-gnome-screensaver does no harm.

josef

On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 18:45 +0100, Ian McInerney wrote:

Can you be more specific about the package structure (or provide a link to the spec)? Does the new package X-2 (or X-b-2) still contain the same functionality that was present inside X-a-1, so if a user installs one of those, they get the same program just without the dependency?

-Ian

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:31 PM josef radinger <cheese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi,

i would like to know how to remove a subpackage from the distribution.
eg. there is a package X, which is in rawhide with version 1 and has
subpackages a and b.

we have
X-1
X-a-1 (dependent on X and Y)
X-b-1 (dependent on X)

now the dependency Y is removed from rawhide and i create a new version
2 of package X without the dependency on Y and thus no subpackage X-a-
1.

now we have:
X-2 (which obsoletes X-a-1)
X-b-2

questions:
a) do i have to add X-a-1 to fedora-obsolete-packages?
b) is there a difference between rawhide and other branches?

the docs - at least those i found (mainly
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life#Obsoleting_Packages
)- are not too clear for me in that regard. besides: we should have a
search-engine on docs.fedoraproject.org or even better over all our
websites. google helps, but is not that great when it comes to not
track users.


yours
josef
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