Description of problem: Mono uses Obsoletes and Provide tags after the %description tag, which show up in the description instead of fulfilling their intended use, namely: Obsoletes: mono-basic Provides: mono-basic (for mono-core) and: Obsoletes: mono-devtools Provides: mono-devtools (for mono-devel). Moreover, using Obsoletes/Provides for mono-basic is wrong. This is now a separate upstream package, so it is not actually included in mono-core. Thus, mono-core definitely shouldn't Provide it. The Obsoletes should also be versioned (i.e. Obsoletes: mono-basic < 1.1.17.1) so mono-basic can be packaged into Extras or similar repositories. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1.17.1-3.fc6 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: N/A Actual results: RPM tags in the description. Expected results: RPM tags are interpreted by RPM. Additional info: N/A
See also http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-October/msg00807.html
So, the mono-devtools thing is a transient and should be removed. The mono-basic part should just be removed and handled by the extras package. Fortunately the error in placement makes these not efficient, so this is more of a cosmetic bug than an actual bug, so no need for an FC6 update.
(we should fix it in rawhide of course)
I'll fix it on the next push to 1.2.6 in rawhide
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