the package in question is tempest, which had a subpackage tempest- gnome-screensaver. gnome-screensaver is no more, therefore i would assume that obsoleting tempest-gnome-screensaver does no harm. josef On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 18:45 +0100, Ian McInerney wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________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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