Re: Obsolete obsoletes/requires

[Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka ioa s u-tokyo ac jp>]

Leszek Matok wrote, at 03/01/2008 11:12 PM +9:00:
> Dnia 2008-03-01, o godz. 08:14:19 seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>
> napisał(a):
>
> > no one is saying this isn't a valid part of rpm. I'm only saying that
> > using these kind of filedeps has a cost and I'd like to minimize that
> > cost as much as possible.
> While we're on that, I don't have any numbers, but I think we have more of
> Obsoletes: and Requires: that can't match any package in any supported Fedora
> version (or any Fedora version at all). For example, compat-libgcc-296 has:
> Obsoletes: gcc <= 2.96, compat-gcc
> of which first hits RHL 7.3 and the second - Fedora 3 at most. I don't think
> anyone is going to upgrade their system even from Fedora 3 (we're at 9), not to
> mention 6-year-old RHL.

We are discussing these types of Obsoletes/Requires on "merge reviews" of
those packages (although I am not sure if someone has already begun to review gcc
merge review)

Regards,
Mamoru