Broken dependencies with Fedora 14 + updates-testing - 2010-09-22

[Jesse Keating]

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On 09/23/2010 10:59 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 09/22/2010 09:44 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>     contacts-0.12-2.fc14.i686  requires  libcamel-1.2.so.19
>>
>> I've "fixed" this by unpushing contacts from updates-testing.  There is
>> an evolution(-data-server) update in the works which is in the
>> buildroots, so all these evolution-data-server using packages need to
>> coordinate their updates pushes accordingly.
> 
> <rant on>
> 
> I would be very nice if the evolution maintainers would bother to
> follow the policy that all the rest of us have to follow of either
> notifying or actually doing the grunt work of the rebuilds. During the
> entire F14 release process there's been numerous soname bumps (5-6 if
> memory serves me correctly) requiring rebuilds of dependent packages
> with exactly NO notification. What makes them feel so fricken special
> especially being a core desktop and hence presumably a critical path
> package that they don't need to adhere to the rules that the rest of
> us do. Having a chain of a good dozen packages that depend on e-d-s
> and associated that invariably need tags to be rebuilt against other
> dependant packages this is time consuming and tedious and I'm bloody
> well sick of it!
> 
> <rant off>
> 
> Peter

I understand your frustration.  I see a new name building the evolution
stuff, a different name than previously.  It's possible this new person
just isn't fully aware of the situation.  I'll do what I can to get this
fixed.

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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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