Description of problem: Results from running https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_FileConflicts on the 18 Beta TC8 DVDs: i386: 1:texlive-dvipng-1.14.svn26689-1.fc18.noarch dvipng-1.14-4.fc18.i686 /usr/share/info/dvipng.info.gz /usr/share/man/man1/dvigif.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/dvipng.1.gz 1:texlive-xdvi-22.85.svn26689-1.fc18.noarch xdvik-22.84.14-12.fc18.i686 /usr/share/man/man1/xdvi.1.gz 1:texlive-dvipdfmx-bin-2012-0.svn26509.3.20121019_r28030.fc18.i686 dvipdfm-0.13.2d-44.fc18.i686 /usr/bin/ebb 1:texlive-dvipdfm-0.13.2d.svn26689-1.fc18.noarch dvipdfm-0.13.2d-44.fc18.i686 /usr/share/man/man1/dvipdfm.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/dvipdft.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ebb.1.gz x86_64: 1:texlive-dvipdfmx-bin-2012-0.svn26509.3.20121019_r28030.fc18.x86_64 dvipdfm-0.13.2d-44.fc18.x86_64 /usr/bin/ebb 1:texlive-xdvi-22.85.svn26689-1.fc18.noarch xdvik-22.84.14-12.fc18.x86_64 /usr/share/man/man1/xdvi.1.gz 1:texlive-dvipdfm-0.13.2d.svn26689-1.fc18.noarch dvipdfm-0.13.2d-44.fc18.x86_64 /usr/share/man/man1/dvipdfm.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/dvipdft.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ebb.1.gz 1:texlive-dvipng-1.14.svn26689-1.fc18.noarch dvipng-1.14-4.fc18.x86_64 /usr/share/info/dvipng.info.gz /usr/share/man/man1/dvigif.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/dvipng.1.gz Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive-2012-3.20121019_r28030.fc18
Note that all the noted packages are already obsoleted and provided by TeX Live. Their maintainers agreed with that. We just wait for their retirement/removal.
Relevant tickets for reference: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5369 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5368 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5366 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5364 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5367 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5383
Blocked them in f18 (the requests above did not specify, so only rawhide was blocked).
Discussed at 2012-11-12 QA meeting acting as a blocker review meeting. Accepted as a blocker: Violates the following F18 alpha release criterion: "There must be no file conflicts (cases where the files in some packages conflict but the packages have explicit Conflicts: tags are acceptable) or unresolved package dependencies during a media-based (DVD) install"
Confirmed fixed in 18 Beta TC9.
I have no idea when we should mark this as CLOSED. Do the changes have to propagate into stable repo somehow, and how do we check?
Answering myself, according to bug 875364 comment 14, this has to go to stable first: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/texlive-2012-8.20121115_r28267.fc18
so, feed it some karma...
Update is stable. Closing.