Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:02:48 +0200

David Kastrup wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> 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.

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