Can you be more specific about the package structure (or provide a link to the spec)? Does the new package X-2 (or X-b-2) still contain the same functionality that was present inside X-a-1, so if a user installs one of those, they get the same program just without the dependency?
-Ian On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:31 PM josef radinger <che...@nosuchhost.net> wrote: > hi, > > i would like to know how to remove a subpackage from the distribution. > eg. there is a package X, which is in rawhide with version 1 and has > subpackages a and b. > > we have > X-1 > X-a-1 (dependent on X and Y) > X-b-1 (dependent on X) > > now the dependency Y is removed from rawhide and i create a new version > 2 of package X without the dependency on Y and thus no subpackage X-a- > 1. > > now we have: > X-2 (which obsoletes X-a-1) > X-b-2 > > questions: > a) do i have to add X-a-1 to fedora-obsolete-packages? > b) is there a difference between rawhide and other branches? > > the docs - at least those i found (mainly > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life#Obsoleting_Packages > )- are not too clear for me in that regard. besides: we should have a > search-engine on docs.fedoraproject.org or even better over all our > websites. google helps, but is not that great when it comes to not > track users. > > > yours > josef > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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