A dependency for a noarch package has been removed on an archictecture. How to silent broken dependency mails?

[Mattias Ellert]

ons 2013-09-04 klockan 17:29 +0300 skrev Susi Lehtola:
> On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:55:36 -0400
> Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I could change perl-Alien-ROOT from noarch to architecture
> > > specific, but that's cheating and more seriously it just shifts the
> > > problem in the reverese dependency hierarchy to next level (i.e. I
> > > would get broken dependency for packages requiring
> > > perl-Alien-ROOT).
> 
> This is a valid approach.
> 
> > > How does Fedora infrastracture deal with this issue?
> > > 
> > 
> > Add the following line to perl-Alien-ROOT's specfile:
> > 
> > 
> > ExcludeArch: %{arm}
> 
> That's not enough, since that'll break upgrades. You'll have to make
> some package on arm obsolete perl-Alien-ROOT.

In this case this is not necessary since perl-Alien-ROOT was never
installable on arm since its missing dependence was never available
there. So there is no installed version that needs to be obsoleted.

	Mattias

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