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

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:05 +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:

> Say that there once was a package A in some old release.
> A was then replaced by B (maybe a package rename), so B contains
> 
> B:
>     Obsoletes: A
>     Provides: A
> 
> Now there may be some alternative for B, C. C also includes the
> functionality of A, so also C contains
> 
> C:
>     Obsoletes: A
>     Provides: A
> 
> B doesn't conflict with C, but installing C will uninstall B
> and vice versa.
> 
> We experienced this for example with our java packages.

Was this your java packages or their interaction with eg the Sun ones?
We experienced the latter.  Do you have a link to the appropriate
OpenSuSE bugzilla.

Paul