On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 03:48, Petr Stodulka <pstod...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
> I am confused about the official guidelines for merging of packages in Fedora.
>  From my POV, when I merge some packages and the functionality is preserved,
> the Obsoletes and Provides should be set and kept for 2 release cycles.
> So there is not problem with dependencies, etc. However, I've just realized
> that regarding guidelines only Obsoletes should be set.
>

That link is not to the current Guidelines. The Guidelines section on
renames is here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-replacing-existing-packages
and it says to add both, *unless* it is not a sufficiently compatible
replacement.

> Was it changed and is it really correct? From that point, I already have
> a reported broken deps for git-remote-hg because of the missing provides
> after the merge of some packages - I will fix it, but I am curious whether
> this is really expected. Can you guys put a light on that? Or the guideline
> needs to be fixed?
>
> Thank you!
>
> [0] 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrade_paths_%E2%80%94_renaming_or_splitting_packages
>
> --
> Petr Stodulka
> OS & Application Modernization
> IRC nicks: pstodulk, skytak
> Senior Software Engineer
> Red Hat Czech s.r.o.

-- 
Elliott
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