[Rpm-maint] idea for new keyword: ObsoleteBy

[Stanislav Brabec]

Suppose that you have a custom package gimp-unstable-2.7, that is not
known to your vendor system. You want to follow updates, but once
gimp-2.8 appears, you want your package silently replace by a stable
distro package.

Or suppose that you created libfoo-mybranch-2.3, that contains an
important feature. You know, that your feature is implemented in
upstream version 2.4 and your libfoo-mybranch should be replaced by
libfoo then.

I think that for these purposes it would be nice to have reverse
Obsoletes - package {this_package} tells, that once package defined by
ObsoleteBy appears, solver will behave like if "Obsoletes:
{this_package}" is placed into it.

gimp-unstable.spec:
Version:    2.7.1
Provides:   gimp = %{version}
ObsoleteBy: gimp >= 2.7.1

libfoo-mybranch.spec:
Version:    2.3
Provides:   libfoo = %{version}
ObsoleteBy: libfoo >= 2.4

What do you think about such feature?

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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