[Rpm-maint] [Suse-patch] Revert provides as obsoletes behavior

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Florian La Roche wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:48:24PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Michael Schroeder wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:39:54AM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:58:47PM +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
>>>>> Why updates should not be treated as obsoletes of the pkg name can be
>>>>> easily seen at the example already mentioned earlier.
>>>>>
>>>>> python-2.4 (virtual provides python = 2.4)
>>>>> python22 provides python = 2.2
>>>>>
>>>>> rpm -Uvh python-2.5-1.rpm
>>>>> removes both of the packages above.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe, but look at Fedora's python package. It contains:
>>>>
>>>> python-2.4.2:
>>>>  Provides: python2 = 2.4.2
>>>>  Obsoletes: python2
>>>>
>>>> python22 will probably also contain:
>>>>  Provides: python2 = 2.2
>>>>
>>>> Now installung python-2.5-1 also removes both packages.
>>>
>>> Too much copy'n'paste. It should read:
>>>
>>> Now installung python-2.4.2 removes python22.
>>
>> Yup, and it's just insane behavior.
>>
>> I'm hereby declaring the current behavior as a longstanding bug, now fixed
>> in rpm.org tree and will be in 4.4.2.1.
>
>
> Hello Panu,
>
> I've changed my mind on this. For compat packages the fix in
> 4.4.2.1 will be good. Not so good to see a bigger change in
> behaviour within rpm4 releases, but the right step here.

Yup.. changing behavior like that wouldn't be acceptable unless we 
consider it a bug, like very many rpm users have done. Hence the comment 
above :)

 	- Panu -