[Fedora-packaging] Conflicts in Core and Extras packages

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi all!

For those of you that are not on fedora-advisory-board find attached a
discussion with Michael Schwendt on that list that IMHO falls in the
area of the Packaging Committee. Could you guys please handle that? tia!

If the Committee thinks some parts of this discussion is the area of the
FESCo please notify me or that the PC members that are part of FESCo
bring it over to FESCo. Also please try to get Michael involved into
this discussion -- he seems to be interested in this so he's probably
one of the best people to find a solution for the issue.

But I don't think there is anything to do for FESCo *before* there are
general packaging rules in the guidelines that clarify when Conflicts
are allowed/acceptable and when not (for both Core and Extras). Further:
Extras is no second class citizen -- if Core packages are allowed to
conflict with other parts of Core then Extras packages should IMHO be
allowed to Conflict with packages of Core, too. Sure, that should be
controlled and I think FESCo in the future should approve each Conflict
before it hits the repo. And we should check the exiositing conflicts
-- but we need some guidelines from the PC first when conflicts are
acceptable and when not.

CU
thl