On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Igor Gnatenko <ignatenko(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Michael Schwendt
<mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 13:14:13 +0200, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
>
>> All guidelines mandate the use of </<= Obsoletes, but unfortunately we
>> have some number of packages (179 source rpms -> 292 binary rpms) with
>> unversioned Obsoletes or with >/=/>= Obsoletes.
>>
>> It is causing problems with upgrade (if package is getting re-added)
>> or with 3rd-party repositories. Older package is obsoleting new
>> package.
>
> Good luck with trying to get some packagers to fix such issues!
> I appreciate the effort as I've reported similar things many times before,
> but some packagers just don't respond in bugzilla or overwrite changes
> applied to git after waiting months for a reply.
Isn't this is a guidelines, so if packager ignores them - he should be punished?
No, packager's sponsor will be contacted and he will guide the
packager for the correct usage of packaging guidelines.
Regards,
Parag