Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (86 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

(forgot to reply to this...)

Le mardi 20 septembre 2011, à 21:37 +0200, Christian Boltz a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> on Montag, 19. September 2011, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le dimanche 18 septembre 2011, à 20:07 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
> > > obsoletes/provides relation:
> > >   Obsoletes: foo < %version
> > >   Provides: foo = %version
>
> > Sascha mentioned this case in his talk about packaging best
> > practices.
> >
> > The recommendation is the following:
> >
> >  - if there's a version update at the same time, use <
> >  - if there's no version update, use <=, and add a comment specifying
> >    for which version this was done, so people know when it's safe to
> > go to <.
>
> So far, so good, but: does it really make sense to use %version for the 
> obsoletes? IMHO a hardcoded version would make more sense...

It really depends, there are two cases here:

 a) package got renamed: %{version} is fine
 b) upstream got renamed: then a fixed version might be better

Case b should not be strict, imho, as I can see cases where the the
upstream name simply got adapted a bit, but it's really the same team,
working on the same project. For instance, if foo2 got renamed to foo,
then using %{version} is fine, imho.

Cheers,

Vincent

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