Description of problem: The synergy package has been superseded by synergy-plus. synergy hasn't been updated for 3 years. Also synergy-plus and synergy conflict. Please make synergy-plus obsolete synergy. Or at least change the filenames so it doesn't conflict. Or use alternatives (like java). synergy-plus should provide the capability that quicksynergy needs. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524910
I think that alternatives should be avoided, since synergy-plus is a bugfix fork of synergy : Everyone should switch to it and not need to switch back. I've just retired synergy for devel. Maybe I should do the same for all other current branches?
I don't think you can retire a package in a release branch. You could obsolete it though. You could put a comment in the synergy package saying to upgrade to synergy-plus. Check with release team?
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I've made synergy-plus provide synergy, and with F-13 synergy is gone altogether, obsoleted by synergy-plus. See bug #524910.