Bug 756733

Summary: Mysterious Obsoletes/Provides
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael>
Component: syslinuxAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michael Schwendt 2011-11-24 11:53:14 UTC
Main package "syslinux" does:

  Obsoletes: syslinux-devel < %{version}-%{release}
  Provides: syslinux-devel

However, a syslinux-devel subpackage definition is present. A -devel package is built. No comment explains above Obs/Prov pair.

%changelog only says:

* Thu Dec 17 2009 Peter Jones … - 3.83-2
- Split out -devel

* Tue Aug 22 2006 Jesse Keating … - 3.11-4
- Obsolete syslinux-devel.
- Couple cleanups for packaging guidelines

* Mon Jun 12 2006 Peter Jones … - 3.11-2
- Fold -devel subpackage into "syslinux"



Just an oversight? Or with undocumented background (such as a noarch<->arch switch)?

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2012-04-18 20:52:40 UTC
*** Bug 809785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Michael Schwendt 2012-04-18 20:53:51 UTC
I've verified that the 3.83-2 commit reintroduced the -devel subpkg without removing the Obs/Prov added earlier.

I've committed a fix to Rawhide.

Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2012-04-18 21:03:49 UTC
Rawhide build fails, however, due to something unrelated:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=314044

In file included from syslinux.c:50:0:
../libinstaller/linuxioctl.h:22:44: fatal error: linux/ext2_fs.h: No such file or directory

Comment 4 Michael Schwendt 2012-04-18 21:09:56 UTC
*** Bug 812572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***