Hello

Neal Gompa recently raised question about suse-release Provides in Leap/SLE as
15 SP3 Backports fail on installcheck while openSUSE Leap release package
(still) has such provides.

Background:

Seems like from SLE point of view there could have been a package in the past.
But generally in SLE15 code base sle never provided suse-release.

See line 107
https://build.suse.de/package/view_file/SUSE:SLE-15-SP3:GA/000package-groups/SLES-release.spec.in?expand=1

# create /etc/SuSE-release - deprecated, FATE#316268
# no longer build, in case you wonder

Why do I suggest removal?

My problem is that it seems to provide expectation that all SUSE family
products and project have suse-release and that is not the case.

Could we get rid of these misleading provides (suse-release, suse-release-oss)? 

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_for_Leap 

These articles do not reference them at all.


I did grep all of openSUSE:Leap:15.3 and openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3 and this
was the result:

lkocman@localhost:/mnt/obs> grep suse-release openSUSE*/*/*.spec
openSUSE:Leap:15.3/000release-packages/Leap-release.spec:Provides:      
suse-release = %{version}-%{release}
openSUSE:Leap:15.3/000release-packages/Leap-release.spec:Provides:      
suse-release-oss = %{version}-%{release}