[Rpm-maint] RPM Obsoletes unversioned Provides too eagerly

[Jeremy Katz]

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...

Jeremy