[Catalog-sig] PEP 345 Update

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:10 PM 8/23/2010 +0200, Alexis Métaireau wrote:
>  Le 08/23/2010 05:56 AM, Tarek Ziadé a écrit :
> > If that's the case, then it should suffice to explain in the PEP that the
> >> intent of this field is for an author/owner to describe reorganization of
> >> their own software, rather than for one package to claim that it's a
> >> replacement for another.
> > We can improve the Obsoletes-Dist description, sure. Notice that
> > it will be misused if we don't add Conflict-Dist. That's basically
> > why I wanted to add this field, as suggested by someone on IRC (sorry
> > I forgot who)
>True: we need to make the descriptions clearer, especially fot the
>installation script creation POV.
>
>I have updated the description of those two fields (that are
>obsoletes-Release and Conflict-Release — *not* dist), you can see the
>changes I propose here:
>http://bitbucket.org/ametaireau/python-peps/changeset/22f08df917f2

Looks pretty good.  It'd be nice if it was clearer that installation 
tools should not use the Obsoletes or Conflicts fields to uninstall 
things without user or author verification (or to silently block 
dependency fulfillment) but it's definitely improved.