Orion Poplawski wrote:
Mike A. Harris wrote:
Having package contain Provides/Obsoletes for a previous subpackage which provides some actual functionality, but which is not present due to being disabled, means that software which requires the functionality is lied to, and dependency resolution is tricked into working, but there are runtime software failures or similar.
It's only a lie if a false Provides is added, imo.
Okay. Is there any concern about old paraview-mpi packages being stranded, in case this can't be fixed by F7 release (or freeze)?
Yes, a problem, which is why I recommended using Obsoletes, but not Provides. Without out, users with it currently installed may/will soon end up with dependency problems.
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