[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 497646] Upgrade path is broken

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--- Comment #2 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi>  2009-04-27 03:13:55 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The liberation-fonts provides does not exist in Fedora 11. This is similar to
> what was done to other font packages. So you can not install a package that
> depends on liberation-fonts in F11, and you can not update a system to F11 if
> it includes a package depending on liberation-fonts not replaced by a new
> package with fixed requires
> 
> This was an intentional choice to force packagers to take into account the new
> F11 package layout.
> 
> However F11 itself should not include such a package, and the upgrade path
> works for pure Fedora packages, so it s NOTABUG  

I don't think that's a valid point: if you have a F10 system with some package
requiring liberation-fonts, it will not be removed if the package that required
it no longer requires it.

However, if the new F11 package requires the new liberation-fonts-subpackage,
you will end up with a file clash, which is not what is supposed to happen.

"Forcing" other maintainers is not a good thing if it means that upgrades don't
work automatically. At least for people wanting to yum upgrade this is a pain
in the ass.

Now that F11 is going gold soon, I think you SHOULD put in the obsoletes, since
every package that has already been built in F11 has taken the renamal into
account-

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