Hi there,

I am using openSUSE 13.1 with kernels from repo Kernel:stable/standard.

A few days ago all packages of "kernel-desktop" flavors got removed with the
following entry in changelog:

* Fr Sep 25 2015 mmarek@suse.cz
- Merge kernel-desktop back into kernel-default/kernel-pae (fate#319416)
- commit ad49492

So far, so good, and it was certainly OK to do so which also applies to this:

Provides: kernel-desktop = 4.3
Provides: kernel-desktop-base = 4.3

However, I think this is not such a good idea:

Obsoletes: kernel-desktop <= 4.3
Obsoletes: kernel-desktop-base <= 4.3

Let's say some user wants to test one of those kernels on his stable openSUSE
version (like 13.1/13.2) but does not want to delete his running kernel
released for that stable distro (like "kernel-desktop-3.16.X" for openSUSE 13.2
or "kernel-desktop-3.11.X" for openSUSE 13.1) which was installed by default
and most likely will be a "desktop"-flavored kernel.

With the obsoletion of all "kernel-desktop" packages < 4.3 (= any
kernel--desktop package from any stable kernel version ever released for
openSUSE)this would force the user to remove older "known to work" kernels but
only the ones of the "desktop"-flavor. 

Yes, I could just replace the older "kernel-desktop" package by a respective
"kernel-default" from 13.1/13.2, but that would not really make sense.

It should be possible to keep an older, stable "kernel-desktop" (i.e. one from
the running, stable release) as a fallback.

IMHO the new kernel-pae/kernel-default should not obsolete any stable distro
kernel for supported openSUSE releases, so the best way would be to remove
obsoletion of kernel-desktop <= 4.3 from the packages on
kernel:stable/standard.

Greetings,

AK