Obsoletes question: codeina

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Oct 6 09:49:13 UTC 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> In the PackageKit-gstreamer-plugins package, I've currently got:
> 
> Obsoletes: codeina < 0.10.1
> Provides:  codeina = 0.10.1
> 
> The version in rawhide is codeina-0.10.1-9.fc10
> 
> Looking at bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465723 it
> looks like I've got this wrong.
> 
> Should I just do:
> 
> Obsoletes: codeina
> Provides:  codeina

Unversioned obsoletes are bad and should be avoided like the plague.

How about this?

Obsoletes: codeina < 0.10.1-10
Provides:  codeina = 0.10.1-10

Paul.




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