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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236142

           Summary: unversioned self-provides should be a fatal error
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Basesystem
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: andreas.hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx


Packages are starting to provide themselves again on Factory, so far I could
identify libxfcegui4 and libxflaim-devel.

This is dangerous (see bug 186079) and always wrong. rpm automatically adds a
versioned self-provides and whenever an additional unversioned one is needed to
make things work, it's a bug somewhere. Therefore, autobuild should reject such
packages.

postgresql uses an explicit versioned self-provides for maybe-legitimate(?)
purposes, so the check should be restricted to completely unversioned
self-provides for now.

The same is true for self-obsoletes and self-conflicts, but these seem to be
rare. So far I've just seen 1 self-obsoletes and 1 indirect self-conflicts.


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