On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Balcaen John wrote:

On Sunday 17 July 2011 14:02:59 Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
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Orphan packages (without a src.rpm in the repository) should be removed
automatically after a few days, we have talked about this before. Maybe
you should file a bug report about it if there isn't any yet.

Well i asked because urpmi allows me to choose between the 2 libgtk gir
packages so an user could choose the wrong package eventually.

I guess obsoletes are needed for smooth upgrades of renamed packages