Smart's "Groundhog Day"

Christoph Thiel cthiel at suse.de
Fri Aug 4 15:24:09 PDT 2006


sorry for the late reply.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Andreas Hanke wrote:

> this is more (open)SUSE-related than smart-related, but still...
> 
> Christoph Thiel schrieb:
> > IIRC KDENETWORK3-INSTANTMESSENGER and KOPETE where obsoleteing each other. 
> > To fix the problem, our KDE maintainers have added a version (<=) to 
> > obsolete only some old versions.
> 
> This (*always* versioning the Obsoletes: tags) should become a policy
> IMHO. Otherwise it's very difficult to rename previously renamed
> packages back to their original name (like kopete ->
> kdenetwork3-InstantMessenger -> kopete).

Good point. Will try to get a formal check into our build system...


Regards
	Christoph



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