An even closer look: Obsolete but still included packages

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Tue Aug 20 18:50:12 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:42:59AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> 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

I've bumped the obsoletes version number and submitted an update, but it
would be nice if there a better way of specifying obsoletes that weren't
nearly so brittle.

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