Broken dependencies in Fedora 11 - 2009-08-20

[Michael Schwendt]

It looks to me as if some people need to learn how to talk to eachother.
Look at this!

A big update package for Mono packages:

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-6615
  Date Released: 2009-06-18 11:01:34
  gbrainy, 
  giver, 
  gnome-do, 
  mono-zeroconf, 
  ipod-sharp, 
  f-spot, 
  muine, 
  tomboy, 
  tasque,
  podsleuth, 
  gnome-keyring-sharp, 
  notify-sharp, 
  beagle, 
  gtk-sharp, 
  mono-tools, 
  gsf-sharp, 
  lat, 
  evolution-sharp, 
  gnome-desktop-sharp, 
  gnome-subtitles

Then on July 1st:

  This update has been obsoleted by tomboy-0.14.3-1.fc11

Huh? That sounds wrong:

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7346
  tomboy-0.14.3-1.fc11

Indeed. A single tomboy build obsoleted more than a dozen Mono packages
and actually got marked stable sometimes later without anyone adding
a comment. And finally a bit later only beagle was updated:

  beagle-0.3.9-9.fc11 bugfix update
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7465

That's packaging chaos. :-/