Re: Dropping -devel subpackage
Iñaki Ucar wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 15:01, Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Iñaki Ucar wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 01:21, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > So the question is: should I add "Obsoletes: pkg-devel <
> >> > $new_version" to pkg's SPEC? Is this a proper use of
"Obsoletes"?
> >>
> >> Yes. Exactly a right thing to do.
> >
> > Thanks, Miro. Then, I suggest to add this particular case to the
> > documentation. Not sure where though, but FWIW, my first search was
> > "drop subpackage" and *not* the "Obsoletes" subsection.
>
> That case should already be covered by the "replace" part of:
>
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-re...
That's not clear to me. I read that in the first place, and I didn't
identify this case either as a rename nor a replacement. A replacement
is like bar that obsoletes foo. But here we have foo and
foo-something, and at some point the latter is dropped (and not
provided in foo).
Originally I'd considered that the *main* package was effectively replacing
-devel, though on second thought it's not a full replacement (ie, only
Obsoletes without Provides).
-- Rex
-- Rex