Bug 507886

Summary: dd_rescue inappropriately obsoletes ddrescue
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Mike Lococo <mikelococo>
Component: dd_rescueAssignee: Andreas Thienemann <andreas>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Mike Lococo 2009-06-24 16:02:11 UTC 
Description of problem:
dd_rescue innapropriately obsoletes ddrescue, please remove the "obsoletes: ddrescue" line from the spec file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.14-7.fc9 (current version from the epel5 repository as of the filing of this bug)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install ddrescue
  
Actual results:
... <snipped yum output>
Package ddrescue is obsoleted by dd_rescue, trying to install dd_rescue-1.12-6.el5.i386 instead
... <snipped yum output>

Expected results:
Install ddrescue, not dd_rescue.

Additional info:
* I believe that at one time in the past the dd_rescue software from http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ was distributed inside a package named ddrescue.

* This was confusing because there is a different piece of software which provides similar functionality called ddrescue from http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html.  In order to resolve this confusion, dd_rescue was packaged under a package of the same name and was set to obsolete the ddrescue package (which at the time was just a duplicate)

* At some later point, ddrescue was packaged, but dd_rescue was not updated to remove the obsoletes line.

This naming kerfuffle appears to be documented somewhat in bug #434859.  At this point there appears to be no reason for the obsoletes, as the two pieces of software are entirely different alternatives to each other.
Comment 1 Mike Lococo 2010-07-09 16:29:11 UTC 
This bug is still unresolved.  Is there any chance that the one-line fix that I suggested in my original report will be applied to the specfile?  ddrescue is by far the better of the two packages, providing a superset of the functionality in dd_rescue, but the standard install process is broken by this trivial dependency bug.
Comment 2 Susi Lehtola 2010-11-18 12:00:50 UTC 
ping?
Comment 3 Andreas Thienemann 2010-11-18 12:14:28 UTC 
Had a chat on IRC. Seems sensible. Will be done.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-11-19 01:28:58 UTC 
dd_rescue-1.23-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dd_rescue-1.23-1.el5
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-11-19 01:29:51 UTC 
dd_rescue-1.23-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dd_rescue-1.23-1.fc14
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-11-19 18:32:22 UTC 
dd_rescue-1.23-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dd_rescue'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dd_rescue-1.23-1.el5
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-11-27 23:37:32 UTC 
dd_rescue-1.23-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-12-04 21:28:17 UTC 
dd_rescue-1.23-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.