Package maintainers -- want test results by mail?

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:25 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:48 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Well, then lets begin:
> > 
> > # rpmlint yum
> > yum.noarch: W: self-obsoletion yum-allow-downgrade < 1.1.20-0 obsoletes 
> > yum-allow-downgrade
[...]
> Which of those messages do you consider noise and why?  Most of them
> look valid to me, though they are indeed nits.

 The self obsolete ones are wrong, being able to do:

Name: foo
Provide: bar = 2
Obsolete: bar <= 2

...is completely legal and needed for rename/merging which is why yum
has them.

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