Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (172 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:15:22AM +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
> Hi, the openSUSE package dirac consists of the following  :-
> dirac                       which contains tools and README AUTHORS and
> the usual text docs
> libdirac_decoder0  decoder libs
> libdirac_encoder0  encoder libs
> dirac-devel             which contains devel files and api documentation
>
> The Packman package dirac consists of the following  :-
> dirac                        Contents identical to openSUSE
> libdirac_decoder0   Contents identical to openSUSE
> libdirac_encoder0   Contents identical to openSUSE
> libdirac-devel          which contains only devel files.
> dirac-doc                which contains api documentation
>
> As you can see packman have split dirac-devel into libdirac-devel and
> dirac-doc.
> What is the correct way to handle this conflict? The way it stands atm
> the installation system allows dirac-devel, libdirac-devel and dirac-doc
> to exist in the system.

Confer with the packman maintainer?

The split done sounds sensible.

> When following openSUSE packaging conventions for merging two packages
> into one I get an rpmlint error about self-obsoletion.

The obsoletes needs to be of "oldpackage <= lastversionofitsuse".

Ciao, Marcus
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