From: Feedback To: psychonaut@nothingisreal.com Subject: Ticket [20041221990000068] Message-Id: <20050117110003.38AC4C286E@jupiter.suse.de> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:00:03 +0100 (CET) Dear Mr. Miller, Thank you for your mail to the SUSE Linux feedback team. * psychonaut@nothingisreal.com (psychonaut@nothingisreal.com) [20050114 16:46]: > A problem I am running up against is that it seems that gpp was also the > name of another, now-obsolete program from the GNU compiler package. GNU > gpp has been superseded by the GNU gcc-c++ RPM; the SuSE 9.0 RPM package > gcc-c++-3.3.2-26 claims that it obsoletes gpp. The problem is that the > rpm program (and associated programs such as apt4rpm) does not > distinguish between my gpp and GNU's gpp, so I end up with dependency > errors such as the following when my gpp is installed: Yes, rpm (and thus apt4rpm) can't destinguish between those two. > I believe that by now it is unlikely that any SuSE users will have the > old GNU gpp program installed. Might it be possible, then, for > subsequent releases of your gcc-c++ RPM to remove the condition > specifying that it obsoletes gpp? This would allow the SuSE gcc-c++ RPM > and my gpp RPM to coexist peacefully. We can't and won't remove it from current or past distributions, but we've removed the these 'obsoletes' entries for future versions of SUSE Linux products. Your SUSE Linux Feedback Team Philipp Thomas -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Feedback Team Maxfeldstr. 5 http://www.suse.de/feedback 90409 Nuernberg, Germany