Conflicts · Re: [Bug 226377] Merge Review: rpm

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Aug 27 17:40:19 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 19:21 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:10:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > Conflicts are not allowed per the packaging guidelines. Any instance of
> > current Fedora packages that conflict either explicitly or implicitly
> > (via files) with another current Fedora package is considered a bug and
> > would not pass review if brought new to the project.
> 
> Still not true. There are exceptions. Else a few current Fedora
> packages, which conflict explicitly, could not be in the collection.
> Other packages live on happily with bugs filed but no fix for a very
> long time.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Conflicts

Existing bugs not withstanding, nothing new should Conflict.

~spot




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