From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820 Description of problem: both db1-1.85-8 and gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-20 both contain /usr/bin/db1_dump185 /usr/lib/libdb1.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb1.a
The opinion around here seems to be that gnome-libs should not obsolete db1, because then anyone with db1 installed would get gnome-libs when they upgrade. but most likely they don't _need_ db1 as nothing is using it anymore.
As things stand now, I see no clean way to upgrade: I have a system with db1, and a lot of old packages using libdb.so.2 from db1. I can't upgrade one of those old packages, e.g. gnumeric, since it requires gnome-libs >= 1.4.1. I can't upgrade gnome-libs, since it conflicts with files from db1. Adding all the old packages in the same gigantic upgrade would not help, it would still conflict with db1. I can't remove db1 since all the old packages depend on it. There is no way to start here! But if gnome-libs did obsolete db1, as would be logical, it provides what db1 provides, then everything would run fine. It sounds to me that you are avoiding this in because of a limitation in the upgrade logic. When upgrading, the obsolete tag is apparently assumed to mean more than it actually says. But if so that is a problem with the upgrade logic, and should be fixed there.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58942 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.