Question on how to handle an upgrade case (vim-syntastic)

[Martin Jackson]

Hello,

I use and like vim-syntastic, so I took it from the orphan list.

There is an open bug on it that led to its retirement, that the rnc 
subpackage fails to install because rnv is no longer available.

It's straightforward enough to stop building the -rnc subpackage for 
vim-syntastic, but do I also need to obsolete older versions of the 
vim-syntastic-rnc subpackage?

Thanks,

Marty

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:42 PM Martin Jackson <mhjacks(a)swbell.net&gt; wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I use and like vim-syntastic, so I took it from the orphan list.
>
>  There is an open bug on it that led to its retirement, that the rnc
>  subpackage fails to install because rnv is no longer available.
>
>  It's straightforward enough to stop building the -rnc subpackage for
>  vim-syntastic, but do I also need to obsolete older versions of the
>  vim-syntastic-rnc subpackage?
>  
Just add:

Obsoletes: vim-syntastic-rnc < %{version}-%{release}

to the main package.



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[Paweł Marciniak]

>  but do I also need to obsolete older versions of the 
>  vim-syntastic-rnc subpackage? 
Yes, you have to.  See:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-re...

[Paweł Marciniak]

PS. rnc subpackage is still built.
You should remove this line "#%add_subpackage -n rnc rnv"  or replace with this
line "#%%add_subpackage -n rnc rnv"
Please note the additional percent sign.
You should also remove unnecessary files. e.g. "rm -r syntax_checkers/rnc"
And of course add obsoletes (see spec file line 32 and 33)

[Martin Jackson]

Thanks for the quick response!  I've submitted a new build to rawhide 
that fixes this.

Marty

On 7/7/21 12:46 PM, Paweł Marciniak wrote:
>> but do I also need to obsolete older versions of the
>> vim-syntastic-rnc subpackage?
> Yes, you have to.  See:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-re...
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