[opensuse-packaging] My first factory package update. Help please.

I'm attempting my first package update and it got rejected. I don't understand some of Coolo's statements, so I'm hoping for clarification from the experts here. See interspersed: ---------- Forwarded message ----------

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From: Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:23 AM Subject: [obs submit-request 92004] openSUSE:Factory/perl-Image-ExifTool: declined by coolo To: Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com

State of submit-request #92004 was changed by coolo:

 review -> declined

Comment:  do not require package names, but require perl(IO::Compress) - and wait for it to land in Factory (I just submitted it).

I understand that part.

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And add provides/obsoletes for exiftool in there - and add a deleterequest for it. We don't need the tool twice in factory

This has me lost. perl-Image-ExifTool v8.40 is already in factory. I'm just upgrading it to 8.65. Admittedly there is a new executable (/usr/bin/exiftool) that was not there before. I can add a provides statement easily enough, but why do I need a obsoletes and why do I need a deleterequest. I'm just trying to update an existing perl package (devel:languages:perl / perl-Image-ExifTool).

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https://build.opensuse.org/request/diff/92004

Source  project:  devel:languages:perl  package:  perl-Image-ExifTool  revision: 5

Target:  project: openSUSE:Factory  package: perl-Image-ExifTool

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