Help Needed: Missing Obsoletes cause upgrade trouble

[Warren Togami]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:37:53 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> 
>>[...]
>>
>>>>  alsa-driver ./. dev, MAKEDEV
>>>>  alsa-lib, alsa-utils, all of alsa* because 1.0.4 > 1.0.3a!
>>>
>>>Dangerous. In particular "alsa-driver", which contains many /dev files.
>>
>>What can I (as alsa-packager for fedora.us) do to solve this problem?
>>Any hints?
> 
> 
> Nothing I know of. I don't know about any ways to specify that a package
> obsoletes itself during an upgrade. Any packages which are not listed as
> "Obsoletes:" in a new package are not removed.
> 

Has the ABI/API changed from 1.0.3a to 1.0.4?

Warren