[Fedora-packaging] one less binary package

[Scott Talbert]

On Mon, 5 May 2014, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My resiprocate package produces multiple binary packages
> 
> As of v1.9.x, one of the binary packages doesn't exist any more.  It is
> called resiprocate-b2bua
> 
> Is it OK for me to release v1.9 (without the obsolete package) to F20?
> 
> Is there anything I can do to have resiprocate-b2bua eliminated from F20
> as part of this update?
> 
> As far as I know, this B2BUA code is not widely used and it is quite
> likely nobody has installed the package at all.  In 7 years that this
> code has been in the upstream project, we only had two queries about it
> on the mailing list.

I asked a similar question a couple months back:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2014-March/010097.html

It turns out the recommended approach is to have one of the other packages 
obsolete older versions of the package you are removing.

Scott