Adam Jackson wrote:
The received wisdom seems to be "Only care about upgrades with
stride <=
2", meaning, FC5 to F7 should work, but FC1 to F7 is madness. Is this
written down anywhere, or just tribal knowledge?
I ask because there's a fair bit of cruft in the X packages to handle
things like Obsoletes: XFree86. We haven't shipped that since FC2, so
it's hard to still care.
Recall, I recommended omitting such cruft in the mesa-libGLw Review,
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/188974
but mharris felt strongly otherwise: "They should IMHO not be removed
ever.".
*shrug*.
In the end, it's ulimately your (as maintainer) call to make, and, fwiw, I
see no harm is removing the old Obsoletes now.
-- Rex