[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Boolean (rich) Obsoletes (#1772)

Florian Festi notifications at github.com
Tue Sep 14 14:44:54 UTC 2021


Obsoletes do look like dependencies but they are a different thing. They do alter the update path of a package basically saying "This package changed name and the line of updates continues here". As such they are matched against package names only and not against provides (as the new package may often have the same provides and may even provide the previous package name).
When introducing boolean dependencies we opted against adding boolean Obsoletes as Obsoletes are already complicated enough. Why not add the Obsolete to the firefox-esr78 packages as soon as firefox-esr52 is outdated.

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