On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:55:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thursday 26 April 2007 13:44:51 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> I don't think this is a good idea. We shouldn't introduce ugly hacks for
> temporary errors in packaging.
I don't want to either, however I was convinced a while ago by a FESCo meeting
that we wanted to preserve upgrade paths within Rawhide after a certain
point, and I think we've past that point for F7. The Obsoletes/Provides
could get dropped for the F8 fork of the package (not the F7 or F7 updates
version)
A versioned Obsoletes would work, but would be ugly.
A Provides would be completely wrong. You certainly do not want to
make lftp Provides lftp-devel.
Further, other forms of temporary breakage in rawhide cannot be fixed
(think "broken scriptlets") or would require unnecessarily complex
work-arounds.