[Fedora-packaging] Fixing broken dependencies

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Feb 24 15:15:12 UTC 2011


On 24/02/11 15:11, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:59:46 +0100 (CET), Michal wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> please could you point me to some guideline with the correct procedure to fix broken dependencies /
>> tag corrected source for some build?
>>
>> One of my packages has got broken dependency for F15 (metagoofil).
>> I have tried to fix it the same way as if I would be doing update, but this was probably not a right thing to do.
>>
>
> Why not?
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/metagoofil
>
> The update there fixes the broken dep. You would need to push it to stable,
> though, so the F-15 Branched Report would no longer report the broken dep
> in the older package in F-15 Branched (i.e. development/15 + updates/15).

Nothing's (except alpha blockers that is) getting pushed to F-15 stable 
until after the alpha freeze, which I believe has just been extended by 
a week, so we'll have to put up with the F-15 broken dependency nagmails 
until then.

Paul.


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