Comment # 12 on bug 1203735 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Larry Finger from comment #11)
> (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #10)
> > So that anything which still references "virtualbox-guest-x11" pulls in
> > "virtualbox-guest-tools" instead. Currently it breaks because the package is
> > just obsoleted but not provided.
> 
> What is the problem. Every guest that asks for virtualbox-guest-x11 NEEDS
> virtualbox-guest-tools. I do not see any reason to provide a package with no
> files in it. Would OBS even allow that?

"Provides:" does not create a new package, it simply adds a new tag to the
virtualbox-guest-tools package.