Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] writes:

David Kastrup wrote:

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Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] writes:

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Assuming that we do not give the old git-p4import script
packaged in "git-p4 package", would the following patch be all
that is needed, or do we need other things in the spec file?

-- snipsnap clipcrap --
+Obsoletes:	git-p4

That depends. If packages outside of git requires the git-p4 package
to function then this will not suffice and a line saying

	Provides: git-p4

would have to be added instead.

Not instead, but in addition IIRC (it obsoletes the package and
provides the feature).  But that would be nonsensical if the outside
package indeed requires git-p4 and we don't have it in our current
RPM: the purpose of dependencies is to not have things break silently,
and lying about what we provide would be wrong.

No, it really is instead. A package obsoleting one of the features
it provides itself would be insane.

Not according to my understanding: "Obsoletes:" concerns _packages_,
while "Provides:" concerns features.  So it is perfectly feasible to
obsolete a previously separate package and provide its functionality.

And indeed, our "emacs-auctex" package _both_ obsoletes _and_ provides
"auctex".  And it is not like we did not learn this the hard way...

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David Kastrup