[Fedora-packaging] queries about merging 2 packages

[Jon Ciesla]

Sorry for top post, mobile.  I think given the lack of builds toy can skip
Obsoletes and Provides, and can just follow the EOL procedure on the wiki.
On May 11, 2013 6:01 PM, "Gerard Ryan" <galileo at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

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> Hi packaging,
>
> I've got two packages which should be one. The reason they were two
> before was because of some strange circular dependencies, iirc. This
> doesn't apply anymore since the upstream project have moved from CVS
> to Git, and seem to have moved some things between some of their
> subproject repositories to fix the circular dependency problem.
>
> So, the package that I want to drop hasn't been built for Rawhide or
> F19 yet, and I don't think it should be. I haven't updated the main
> package to merge in the split one yet (it's ready, just waiting for
> broken deps). My questions are mainly about what steps do I need to do
> to do this as cleanly as possible:
>
> - - Do I need to manually put in any 'Obsoletes' or 'Provides' or
> anything like that? Nothing else uses the split package apart from a
> couple of my other packages, which I will remove (Build)Requires from.
>
> - - Since it hasn't been built in F19 yet, is there anything I need to
> do to other than retire it in pkgdb? I've never dropped or retired any
> packages so I'm not sure of the steps that need to be done.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,
> Gerard.
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