On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:55:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007 13:44:51 Patrice Dumas wrote: > > I don't think this is a good idea. We shouldn't introduce ugly hacks for > > temporary errors in packaging. > > I don't want to either, however I was convinced a while ago by a FESCo meeting > that we wanted to preserve upgrade paths within Rawhide after a certain > point, and I think we've past that point for F7. The Obsoletes/Provides > could get dropped for the F8 fork of the package (not the F7 or F7 updates > version) A versioned Obsoletes would work, but would be ugly. A Provides would be completely wrong. You certainly do not want to make lftp Provides lftp-devel. Further, other forms of temporary breakage in rawhide cannot be fixed (think "broken scriptlets") or would require unnecessarily complex work-arounds. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
