[Mageia-dev] How should packages with version in name be handled?

Mon Mar 26 01:57:07 CEST 2012

I've started qa testing upgrading from Mageia 1 to
+Cauldron, to ensure going from Mageia 1 to 2 will
+go smoothly.
+
+I'm running into a some cases like
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5103
+where Mageia 1 has libchamplain-gtk0.8_1
+   and Cauldron has libchamplain-gtk0.12_0
+
+As the packages contain version numbers in the package name,
+urpmi is not treating it as a package update, which results
+in messages such as
+
+The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
+libchamplain-gtk0.8_1-0.8.3-1.mga1.i586
+  (due to missing libclutter-gtk-0.10.so.0)
+libchamplain0.8_1-0.8.3-1.mga1.i586
+  (due to missing libclutter-glx-1.0.so.0)
+
+Am I correct in thinking that adding an obsoletes of
+libchamplain-gtk0.8_1 to libchamplain-gtk0.12_0 would
+get urpmi to remove it without generating the above
+message?
+
+If so, should I be opening bug reports for each of these
+cases, or should it be left as is, and simply tell the
+users to go ahead and answer yes to the prompt?
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+