Re: Broken dep in updates-testing for almost one month
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:32:27 -0500, Aaron wrote:
There's been a broken dependency between intellij-idea and
jna-examples[1]
for about a month now. jna-examples has been obsoleted by jna-contrib, but
intellij-idea hasn't also been updated to handle this change, so jna fails
to install.
I was wondering whether the impetus lies on the JNA package to correct the
broken dependency, or on the intellij-idea package to stay up to speed? As
it stands, neither seems to be in any sort of hurry. ;)
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619049
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/jna
It's bit of "pointing finger at others" after breaking this dependency.
jna-contrib "Obsoletes: jna-examples" _without_ version and _without_
the corresponding "Provides: jna-examples = %{version}-%{release}" which
would be appropriate for package change of name.
=> jna-contrib ought to fix that
*and*
intellij-idea may switch to requiring jna-contrib whenever it will
be updated
Forcefully breaking the dependency (as has been done), is just poor style.