On Thursday, April 14, 2016 11:34:08 AM CDT Honza Šilhan wrote:
> From: "Dennis Gilmore" <dennis(a)ausil.us>
>
> On Thursday, April 7, 2016 7:54:36 AM CDT Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > On 04/06/2016 04:49 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>>>> "PP" == Petr Pisar
<ppisar(a)redhat.com> writes:
> > >> PP> This changes meaning regarding to F25. Previous text banned
rich
> > >> PP> strong dependencies in F24 only. This current text extends the
> > >> ban
> > >> PP> to all Fedoras.
> > >>
> > >> PP> Is that intentional?
> > >>
> > >> It's currently correct according to FESCo's request as I
understood
> > >> it.
> > >> While f25 might still be able to compose, if the tools aren't
fixed
> > >> before the next branch then we'll have to back things out or end
up
> > >> back
> > >> in a situation where we can't mash updates.
> > >
> > > I'd say it's fine for now. Our *hope* is that we will be able to
> > > support
> > > them for F25 at some point, but composes *right now* probably don't
> > > work,
> > > so I think this wording is fine.
> >
> > So you don't expect that mash could be fixed/replaced before the F24
> > release in June, then?
>
> All of the replacements use yum also. The issues may be due to rhel7'a rpm
> not
> supporting boolean deps.It is not a small problem to fix and it needs some
> people to sit down and figure out how to best deal with them.
We've built whole DNF stack supporting rich dependencies for this purpose.
We are in touch with relengs. Hopefully we'll make this done to F25.
Honza
I am afraid you are not in touch with relengs, I have not had any discussions
with you.
Dennis