Feature added by: Stanislav Brabec (sbrabec) Feature #306304, revision 1, last change by Title: support "Obsolete this by another package" openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stanislav Brabec (sbrabec) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: If third party wants to terminate a temporary branch of a package, which should is obsoleted by the mainline, adding Obsoletes: foo-old-branch into the mainline package is not an option (it's possible only for official packages). Support for an Obsolete tag counterpart initiated by the existing package would fix this situation. Example: Name: gimp-unstable Version: 2.5.23 Provides: gimp = %{version} ObsoleteBy: gimp >= 2.6 It would allow to provide mainline gimp packages without Obsoletes: gimp-unstable < 2.6 and even allow thitd partines to create temporary branches of packages. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Providing a significantly modified packages, that are known to be obsolete after upgrade to the -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306304