[Rpm-maint] RPM Obsoletes unversioned Provides too eagerly

[Fernando Nasser]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 10:25 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
>> So any attempt to remove the real, deprecated, xml-commons-apis package 
>> on the package that replaces it, causes RPM to attempt to remove the JDK 
>> RPM, which is a basic package and cannot be removed.  RPM fails to 
>> install the new package.
>>
>> See Expected Results for my suggested behavior and Additional Info for a 
>> suggested pseudo-code.
> 
> Changing this will break the behavior of every depsolver and script that
> anyone has written.  I don't think that "work around busted package" is
> a good enough reason for that level of pain...
> 

Accordingly to Jeff the behavior was "broken" when someone changed it to 
dislodge packages based on virtual provides.

Using your own argument, lets either revert that change or improve it.