"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for
  fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/.

There seems to be an issue with this and RPMS.

In particular, there is no longer a git-p4 RPMS, which prevents git
from getting upgraded at all by yum.

Anyone who knows yum well enough to explain what needs to be done so
that yum knows this is obsolete?

Probably a matter of the correct spec file.  In auctex.spec, we have

Summary: 	Enhanced TeX modes for Emacsen
Name: 		auctex
Version: 	11.84
Release: 	1%{distri}
License: 	GPL
Group: 		%{commongroup}
URL: 		http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
Source0:        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildArchitectures: noarch
BuildRoot: 	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-root

%description
AUCTeX is [...]

%package emacs
Summary: 	Enhanced TeX modes for GNU Emacs
Group:          %{commongroup}
Requires: 	emacs >= 21
Obsoletes:      ge_auc emacs-auctex auctex preview-latex-emacs
Conflicts:      emacspeak < 18
Provides:       auctex


So auctex-emacs obsoletes the previous "auctex" package and some other
packages.  It also provides "auctex" since some other packages might
require it.

Basically, you need to provide everything that a third-party package
might have asked for, and you need to obsolete everything that you
intend to replace.

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