Obsolete obsoletes/requires (was: file dependencies and packages and [blocker] bugs)

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Leszek Matok wrote:
> Dnia 2008-03-01, o godz. 08:14:19 seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
> napisał(a):
> 
> While we're on that, I don't have any numbers, but I think we have more of
> Obsoletes: and Requires: that can't match any package in any supported Fedora
> version (or any Fedora version at all). For example, compat-libgcc-296 has:
> Obsoletes: gcc <= 2.96, compat-gcc
> of which first hits RHL 7.3 and the second - Fedora 3 at most. I don't think
> anyone is going to upgrade their system even from Fedora 3 (we're at 9), not to
> mention 6-year-old RHL.

I think that we shouldn't prevent packagers to support old update paths.
We should really avoid non versionned obsoletes, but otherwise leave it to
packagers instead of doing guidelines.

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Pat