On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 03:48, Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi guys, > I am confused about the official guidelines for merging of packages in Fedora. > From my POV, when I merge some packages and the functionality is preserved, > the Obsoletes and Provides should be set and kept for 2 release cycles. > So there is not problem with dependencies, etc. However, I've just realized > that regarding guidelines only Obsoletes should be set. > That link is not to the current Guidelines. The Guidelines section on renames is here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-replacing-existing-packages and it says to add both, *unless* it is not a sufficiently compatible replacement. > Was it changed and is it really correct? From that point, I already have > a reported broken deps for git-remote-hg because of the missing provides > after the merge of some packages - I will fix it, but I am curious whether > this is really expected. Can you guys put a light on that? Or the guideline > needs to be fixed? > > Thank you! > > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrade_paths_%E2%80%94_renaming_or_splitting_packages > > -- > Petr Stodulka > OS & Application Modernization > IRC nicks: pstodulk, skytak > Senior Software Engineer > Red Hat Czech s.r.o. -- Elliott _______________________________________________ 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
