An even closer look: Obsolete but still included packages

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:15:43 +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:

> > Undead and all builds obsoleted:
> 
> Seems this misses cases like pexpect, which is undead, but obsoleted
> by python-pexpect. Maybe because the latter failed in the latest mass
> rebuild?

Good catch! The Obsoletes tag in python-pexpect is too low, so not even
the previous build obsoletes pexpect yet. That's a common mistake done
by some packagers:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=3752616
  Obsoletes 	pexpect <= 2.3-9

This doesn't take into account the dist tag:

   pexpect-2.3-9.fc19

The dist tag is _part of_ the release value:

  $ rpmdev-vercmp 2.3-9.fc19 2.3-9
  2.3-9.fc19 > 2.3-9

And the rebuild makes it even higher how, of course:

  pexpect-2.3-10.fc20

Cc to python-pexpect owner.