root has broken dependencies in the rawhide tree

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:19:45 +0300, Jussi wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:14:43 -0400
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > I have no idea what these messages I've received mean:
> > 
> > root has broken dependencies in the rawhide tree:
> > On x86_64:
> >         root-unuran-5.26.00e-1.fc15.x86_64 requires
> > libunuran.so.14()(64bit) On i386:
> >         root-unuran-5.26.00e-1.fc15.i686 requires libunuran.so.14
> > Please resolve this as soon as possible.
> 
> Hi,
> (cc root an unuran package owners)
> 
> Looks like the unuran package has been updated to a new version in
> rawhide, which has a newer soname. This breaks dependencies of packages
> that have been built against an older version of unuran; they need to
> be rebuilt against the new version.
> 
> Looks like unuran-1.8.0-1 has been built for f12 - f14, rawhide, el5
> and el6. Package updates seem to have been submitted to f13 and f14. If
> these are pushed to the stable updates repository, packages such as
> root-unuran will break on existing installs. Also they must be built
> against the new version of unuran, and the new packages must be shipped
> together in the updates repository. You will have to request rel-eng for
> a buildroot override to do this.

A few days ago I've added related comments in bodhi. To both the unuran
and root test updates. If a packager doesn't understand what's wrong
with an update, consider adding a short comment.