Bug 797822 - synergy-plus : retire package properly please!
Summary: synergy-plus : retire package properly please!
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: synergy-plus
Version: 23
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Saou
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1018991 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-27 10:59 UTC by Michael Schwendt
Modified: 2016-12-20 12:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 12:11:30 UTC
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Description Michael Schwendt 2012-02-27 10:59:01 UTC
=> synergy-plus-1.3.4-8.fc17.src.rpm
=> synergy-plus-1.3.4-8.fc17.i686 in fedora-development-i386
  File conflict with: synergy-1.3.7-4.fc17.i686
     /usr/bin/synergyc
     /usr/bin/synergys

[semi-automated bug report]

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 18:47:17 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 2 Eric Blake 2013-07-15 22:42:00 UTC
I ran into this problem today; I had synergy-plus installed in F18, then did a fedup upgrade.  synergy-plus was no longer able to let me escape from my server screen to my clients.  I then noticed that the upstream pages state that synergy+ has been merged back into synergy, at the new site synergy-foss.org [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_%28software%29#Synergy.2B], and sure enough, synergy is at 1.4.10 while synergy-plus is stuck at 1.3.4.  But because of the conflict between the two packages, I couldn't just upgrade or 'yum install synergy'; instead, I had to 'yum erase synergy-plus' first.

It seems like adding an Obsoletes: tag in the synergy rpm would make it so that upgrading automatically replaces the old synergy-plus with newer synergy, without having to hit the conflicts manually.

Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2014-05-07 17:05:20 UTC
With recent "fedpkg" tool changes, it has become very easy for package owner(s) to retire  a package properly (because the tool also talks to pkgdb):

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

The synergy-plus package in dist git is dead already, and the Obsoletes tag has been corrected/increased once more to cover the F20 rebuild.

Comment 4 Michael Schwendt 2014-05-07 17:05:22 UTC
*** Bug 1018991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 15:11:19 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 10:37:15 UTC
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Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-12-20 12:11:30 UTC
Fedora 23 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-12-20. Fedora 23 is
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