On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:23:49 +0100, Paul wrote: > The Obsoletes: in pidgin-evo causes pidgin-evo to be pulled in, which is > fine. The package should obsolete pidgin packages prior to the split but > not the ones after the split.
Sounds [more] correct. > > * We need to not erase main pidgin (Obsoletes in pidgin) > > Not needed if pidgin-evo depends on pidgin itself - the regular > dependency mechanism should pull the main pidgin package in. And since > the new pidgin package is versioned later than the split, it's no longer > obsoleted by the pidgin-evo subpackage. Does that not work? That is closer to ordinary package renaming, A renamed to B : B obsoletes A + B provides A with the exception that B does not provide A, but requires a specific version of A. A => pidgin B => pidgin-evolution -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
