Taskotron misses dropped subpackages
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 10:00:00 UTC 2015
Taskotron doesn't notice if subpackages have been dropped and cause
unresolvable dependencies because they are not obsoleted anywhere.
Examples: jogl2-javadoc, miglayout-examples, glusterfs-regression-tests
rubygem-json-doc, rubygem-rake-doc, and more
Yum is broken in the same way. And by design. When installing a
discontinued subpackage, it happily installs any "old" packages it still
finds in the repos to satisfy dependencies, but it cannot upgrade the
installation afterwards because of unsatisfied deps.
[...]
Also a reminder for packagers:
Adhere to Fedora's Packaging Guidelines when removing subpackages!
Add proper Obsoletes tags to your package.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Renaming.2Freplacing_existing_packages
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