rawhide report: 20140113 changes

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 10:32 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
>> >> obexftp contains the same Requires except for libpthread (obexfs
>> >> depends on libphread). There's an empty /usr/share/doc/obexftp/html
>> >> included.
>> >
>> > They're the same tools, the obefxs source was moved into the obexftp
>> > source tree upstream.
>> >
>> > The thing I was unsure about was dealing with obsoleting an orphaned
>> > package. Do I have to adopt the orphaned package first? Or can I just
>> > file a request to kill that package?
>>
>> I think that if obexftp package will "provide" a high enough version of
>> obexfs then an update will automatically replace it and you will end up
>> with obexftp only.  Also anything which has explicit dependencies on
>> obexfs will not raise a fuss as after such replacement dependencies will
>> be still satisfied.
>
> Yes, I know that too. Let me play that tune again, Sam: I'm principally
> asking the question of how the obexfs package should get retired.

I just use "fedpkg retire" which does most of the work and then just
file a rel-eng trac ticket to block it which does the rest. You don't
need to own it.

Peter