On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 08:47:34PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/2/19 8:35 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >Perhaps related, on an upgraded Fedora 30 system I see > >ghostscript-fonts-5.50-37.fc27.noarch, which does not appear on any > >clean installed systems, and also can't be installed (Error: Unable to > >find a match ). That tells me it's been dropped or is obsolete, so is > >it normal for such packages to persist through upgrades? > > Yes, normally there's nothing to cause it to be removed. At some > point you will probably get a conflict when a required library > soname is bumped and then --allowerasing will remove it.
Exactly. We have fedora-obsolete-packages to gather Obsoletes which don't fit anywhere else, but there's no policy to require all packages which have become obsolete to be added there. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
