Re: RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Michael Schwendt <fedora wir-sind-cool org>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:21:56 -0500, seth vidal wrote:

> 
> > Is there a good reason it shouldn't be used to mark packages as obsoleting
> > others?
> > If so, what is it?
> 
> For right now? mostly b/c it's just obsoleting an old version - not a
> change of package name.
> 
> we shouldn't use obsoletes to do what a normal version update should do.

We don't. This is still about

  libfoo obsoletes libfoo10

isn't it?