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Bug 999937 - lzma partially obsolete -> revisit packaging
Summary: lzma partially obsolete -> revisit packaging
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lzma
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Milos Jakubicek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1039258
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-22 11:48 UTC by Michael Schwendt
Modified: 2015-01-11 09:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-01-11 09:48:28 UTC
Type: Bug
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proposed spec file changes (1.89 KB, patch)
2013-08-22 11:48 UTC, Michael Schwendt 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Michael Schwendt 2013-08-22 11:48:29 UTC 
Created attachment 789165 [details]
proposed spec file changes

The situation is as follows:

* lzma < 5.1.2 is obsoleted by xz-lzma-compat (from src.rpm xz).

* Only lzma-libs and lzma-devel remain. zlma-devel and -libs are used by "scotch".

  # repoquery --whatrequires lzma-libs
  lzma-0:4.32.7-9.fc19.x86_64
  lzma-devel-0:4.32.7-9.fc19.i686
  lzma-devel-0:4.32.7-9.fc19.x86_64
  scotch-0:5.1.12-2.b.fc19.i686
  scotch-0:5.1.12-2.b.fc19.x86_64
  scotch-0:6.0.0-2.fc19.i686
  scotch-0:6.0.0-2.fc19.x86_64

* A few packages require "lzma". Since it's replaced, xz-lzma-compat will be used instead, however.

  # repoquery --whatrequires lzma
  autoarchive-0:1.0.1-1.fc19.noarch
  dpkg-dev-0:1.16.10-4.fc19.noarch
  dpkg-dev-0:1.16.10-6.fc19.noarch
  dtrx-0:7.1-4.fc19.noarch

* LZMA Utils 4.32.7 was released on 2008-07-30. Due to the Obsoletes < 5.1.2, it cannot become installable as package "lzma" unless there were a release >= 5.1.2.

* XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils. 

Conclusion:

It doesn't make much sense to build the base "lzma" package anymore.
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