[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release task-obsolete-3-21.mga3

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, andre999 wrote:

> This last point reminds me of the obsoletes of openoffice put in the 
> libreoffice spec, when there was no real conflicts and there were some 
> differences.  So a regression in libreoffice required me to install upstream 
> libreoffice so I could install openoffice alongside, to work around the 
> regressions when I needed to.
> So definitely no added value.
> These obsoletes are still there.

Within mageia, libreoffice packages are supposed to replace old openoffice 
packages, so obsoletes are needed. The solution to the problem you 
describe is to make the obsoletes versioned so they only replace those old 
mga/mdv/mdk openoffice packages, not new ones.


     Christiaan