Provides: and Obsoletes: to satisfy pre-extras package dependencies?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:42:23 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> Is there any issue with new extras packages containing Obsoletes: tags
> which facilitate upgrades from the pre-extras packages?  What about
> Provides: tags to satisfy dependencies of packages which are not in
> Core/Extras?
> 
> The specific example is par2cmdline:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190070
> 
> which has
> 
> Obsoletes:  parchive <= 1.1.4
> Provides:   parchive = 1.1.4.0.par2.%{version}

I posted to FESCO about these issues yesterday, since multiple packagers
have been hit by this, and wanted to hear more comments. Ville pointed me
to this bug report:

  https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=532

There seems to be disagreement that it's a bug in Yum.