Re: Broken dependencies with Fedora 13 + updates-testing - 2010-07-09

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  The following packages in the repository suffer from broken
> dependencies:
>
>  ======================================================================
>  The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
>  ======================================================================
>
>  package: syncevolution-0.9.2+1.0alpha1-1.fc13.i686 from fedora-13-x86_64
>   unresolved deps:
>      libedataserver-1.2.so.11 
I'm not sure where this dep is getting pulled in from as the current
version in F-13 is 1.0-3

Peter

Broken dependencies with Fedora 13 + updates-testing - 2010-07-09

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:50:01 +0100, pbrobinson wrote:

>  > The following packages in the repository suffer from broken
> dependencies:
>  >
>  > ======================================================================
>  > The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
>  > ======================================================================
>  >
>  > package: syncevolution-0.9.2+1.0alpha1-1.fc13.i686 from fedora-13-x86_64
>  >  unresolved deps:
>  >     libedataserver-1.2.so.11
>  
>  I'm not sure where this dep is getting pulled in from as the current
>  version in F-13 is 1.0-3 
Let me reduce the information in an attempt to show how to interpret above
quote:

   syncevolution.i686  from  fedora-13-x86_64

That's multiarch breakage! Fedora 13 was released with syncevolution.i686 in
the x86_64 repo, and the 1.0-3 update did not place its i686 pkg in the
x86_64 updates repo. Anyone with the old syncevolution installed as both
i686 and x86_64 would see the unresolvable dependency.

Questions: Have you changed the dependency-chain? Or has "mash" changed its
multiarch compose strategy? (same question related to F12 "perl")

Broken dependencies with Fedora 13 + updates-testing - 2010-07-09

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:50:01 +0100, pbrobinson wrote:
>
> > > The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies:
> > >
> > > ======================================================================
> > > The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
> > > ======================================================================
> > >
> > > package: syncevolution-0.9.2+1.0alpha1-1.fc13.i686 from fedora-13-x86_64
> > >  unresolved deps:
> > >     libedataserver-1.2.so.11
> >
> > I'm not sure where this dep is getting pulled in from as the current
> > version in F-13 is 1.0-3
>
>  Let me reduce the information in an attempt to show how to interpret above
>  quote:
>
>    syncevolution.i686  from  fedora-13-x86_64
>
>  That's multiarch breakage! Fedora 13 was released with syncevolution.i686 in
>  the x86_64 repo, and the 1.0-3 update did not place its i686 pkg in the
>  x86_64 updates repo. Anyone with the old syncevolution installed as both
>  i686 and x86_64 would see the unresolvable dependency.
>
>  Questions: Have you changed the dependency-chain? Or has "mash" changed its
>  multiarch compose strategy? (same question related to F12 "perl") 
I think the libs were split out into a subpackage so that those that
wished to use them didn't have to pull in the full dep chain. That
would have been the only change I'm aware of.

Peter

Broken dependencies with Fedora 13 + updates-testing - 2010-07-09

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:15:45 +0100, pbrobinson wrote:

>  >> > package: syncevolution-0.9.2+1.0alpha1-1.fc13.i686 from
> fedora-13-x86_64
>  >> >  unresolved deps:
>  >> >     libedataserver-1.2.so.11 
>  >   syncevolution.i686  from  fedora-13-x86_64 
>  > That's multiarch breakage! Fedora 13 was released with
> syncevolution.i686 in
>  > the x86_64 repo, and the 1.0-3 update did not place its i686 pkg in the
>  > x86_64 updates repo. Anyone with the old syncevolution installed as both
>  > i686 and x86_64 would see the unresolvable dependency.
>  >
>  > Questions: Have you changed the dependency-chain? Or has "mash" changed
> its
>  > multiarch compose strategy? (same question related to F12 "perl")
>  
>  I think the libs were split out into a subpackage so that those that
>  wished to use them didn't have to pull in the full dep chain. That
>  would have been the only change I'm aware of. 
And that's it!

syncevolution-devel.i686 now pulls in syncevolution-libs.i686 but
no longer syncevolution.i686

My standard reply is "some packagers use self-Obsoletes to replace
the old multiarch package with the base-arch package". Better would be
if one of the Fedora committees came up with an official strategy.