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 That tells me it's been dropped or is obsolete, so is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