On 5/7/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Packagers should keep usage of Conflicts: to a bare minimum. Only upgrading from two previous release of Fedora is supported, so Conflicts against older packages than that, while technically correct, are unnecessary, and should not be included.
Phrases like "technically correct but don't do this anyways", too me, scream for justification why it is otherwise correct. I can see justification for pruning stupidly complicated Conflicts for clarity. I can also see the encouraging the reverse perspective where Conflicts of a certain age are not *required*. But to discourage a correct Conflicts because it is more than a year old is questionable as it is creating more work for the packager and is throwing up artificial roadblocks for large update leaps. As witnessed by the number of inquiries on the fedora-list labeled "Can I yum/anaconda update FC1->FC7?" ... this is going to bite a lot of people someday. Just seeking some clarity why not doing the right thing is the right thing to do. /Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
