On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:24:08AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:08 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > seth vidal wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 12:50 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> I am planning to add Gutenprint package to Fedora-extras. Gutenprint > > >> was formerly called Gimp-Print. So once this package is in > > >> Fedora-extras it needs first to remove following packages > > >> gimp-print > > >> gimp-print-cups > > >> gimp-print-devel > > >> gimp-print-plugin > > >> gimp-print-utils > > >> But is it allowed to do that? > > >> I have opened a review request for this package. You can check it at > > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108 > > >> > > > > > > No. Absolutely not. > > > > > > Extras packages are not allowed to obsolete or explicitly conflict with > > > core. > > > > I was pretty sure this was the case, but I can't seem to find it > > documented anywhere in the packaging guidelines. Did I miss somewhere? > > I can't find it anywhere either. I'm pretty sure that was an explicit > thing mentioned in the past. Perhaps when Core adopted Extras packaging > guidelines that part got removed. > > It should be added somewhere again. It wasn't in any packaging guidelines but in the definition of Fedora Extras on fedora.redhat.com. Maybe a new definition is needeexplaining also other (non-)differences of Core and Extras? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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