On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:18:32 +0100 bugs.michael@xxxxxxx (Michael Schwendt) wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 14:08:28 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote: > > > This report seems to be incomplete and may be missing an entire > > class of dependency problems. > > > > For example, I cannot update the latest xosd package because > > bmp-xosd has not been compiled against the new xosd release, yet > > this is not showing up in the report. > > It has been in the report. Read on below. > ... snipp... > > However, once the package is gone from the repository, it won't show > up in the reports anymore. This is less than ideal, but we've had to > delete broken and obsolete sub-packages from the repository more > often than they violated an upgrade path. > > The missing obsoletes is a fundamental problem, not specific to > Extras. There is no automatic garbage collection during upgrades. > Usually the release notes only say "remove package foo" or something > like that. One could make "xosd" obsolete "bmp-xosd <= some-version", > but would that be correct when xosd does not provide the > functionality of bmp-xosd? Considering that audacious obsoletes bmp, > maybe there is a substitute of bmp-xosd for the audacious-plugins > package? Yeah, I am not sure what to do here... There is a audacious xosd plugin, but it's not part of xosd, it's a totally seperate upstream source from the audacious folks, so I would think it would be better to be it's own package... So, I could: - Do nothing. This means people who have bmp-xosd installed will see a broken dep and have to manually 'rpm -e bmp-xosd' to get back on track. Not nice to make end users have to do that. ;( - Add a 'obsoletes' to the main xosd package. This would help end users, but this package doesn't really provide bmp-xosd anymore, so should it have to obsolete it? I guess this is cleaner.. Anyone have any thoughts on the best way to fix this? kevin
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