On Monday, November 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Look more closely at the docs for "Obsoletes" in RPM, not just those for > "Provides". Being able to transparently replace an existing package with a > renamed one that installs files with the same names is certainly part of the > purpose/capabilities of the RPM dependency machinery (i.e. precisely the > distribute vs setuptools situation). > We may want to clarify the wording to ensure it is clear that the provision > of the dist name (as posted on PyPI) is implied, though. > Cheers, > Nick. I'm not sure if you're responding to me or not, but we also have Obsoletes-Dist in the metadata. (Which I don't like the name of but that's for another argument).
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