[Rpm-maint] another attempt at improving the cross-color deprecations

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 7 December 2011 16:17, Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This removes the check that prevented deprecating across
> colors.
>
> I could not think of any undesirable scenario this could bring, except:
> A.x86_64 deprecates B (e.g. A does all B does and shares a same binary
> name). If the user has B in both x86_64 and i686 versions, this would
> previously remove only x86_64 but now it removes both, which could be
> undesirable if A.i686 is not yet available in the repo and the user would
> lose the functionality provided by A and B for i686. If this is a problem
> I think I we need to come up with a notation in the spec to enable/disable
> the cross-deprecation (because clearly there are package maintainers that
> except either).
>
> This patch supersedes the "Change how transaction element is
> computed" patch.

I think you forgot to attach it...