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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:02:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DC05F8.7000709@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868x7nj482.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> 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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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-03 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-02  6:31 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3 Junio C Hamano
2007-09-02  6:34 ` A note from the maintainer Junio C Hamano
2007-09-02  6:58 ` [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3 H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-02  7:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-02  8:06   ` David Kastrup
2007-09-02  9:57     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-02 17:38       ` Sean
2007-09-02 22:13         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-02 23:16           ` Sean
2007-09-03  0:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-03  7:51             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-03  8:10               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-03  8:12                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-03  8:35                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-03  8:47                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-03  8:53                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-03  9:10                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-03  9:13                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-03 11:32           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-03 12:58             ` David Kastrup
2007-09-03 13:02               ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-09-03 13:17                 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-03  7:46         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-02  7:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-02  8:43 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2007-09-02 10:28   ` Alex Riesen
2007-09-02 10:59   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-02 11:19     ` Alex Riesen
2007-09-02 12:36     ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2007-09-02 15:12 ` Nicolas Vilz
2007-09-02 22:52 ` David Kågedal
2007-09-02 22:54   ` David Kågedal
2007-09-02 23:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-02 23:36       ` Steven Grimm
2007-09-03  0:03         ` Junio C Hamano

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