pidgin obsoleting itself

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:15:01 +0800, Chen wrote:

> > 2010/6/9 Chen Lei:
> >> Yes, the obsoletes is necessary, if you don't add it, yum will only
> >> pull in pidgin-evolution.
> >
> > For which operation? Can you elaborate a bit?
> >

> "yum upgrade" from 2.7.1-1 will only pull in new pidgin-evolution
> subpackage and del old pidgin if you don't add obsoletes.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=1996754

Competing "Obsoletes" once again. The packager is playing with fire.