[Rpm-maint] Should installed obsoletes be seen as conflicts

[Florian Festi]

Hi!

While discussing the yum resolver I realized that I was erroneously 
believing that rpm would treat installed obsoletes like conflicts.

Scenario:

foo obsoletes: bar
foo is installed
rpm -ivh bar.rpm

Right now rpm installs bar without any error. According to Panu apt-rpm 
issues an error here. Is it possible that rpm did issue an error in some 
earlier versions? And what is the right(tm) behavior?

I have the feeling that just installing the obsoleted package is wrong. Of 
course changing the behavior should not be done for an maintenance release. 
So are there any plans for a major release yet?

Florian Festi