broken dependencies for fawkes-plugin-player

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jan 4 01:14:20 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 09:55 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:43:02 +0100, FD (Francesco) wrote:
> > 
> >> fawkes-plugin-player.x86_64 require libgeos-3.3.0.so (64bit) but
> >> geos.x86_64 package provides libgeos-3.3.1.so
> > 
> > It has been reported before and in the right place:
> > 
> >   http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/fawkes
> > 
> > An update of "geos" is incompatible and should not have been published:
> > 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14436/geos-3.3.1-1.fc16
> 
> And an arguable abuse of the process, a submitter setting karma: 1 and then 
> giving their own update the requisite karma++ to get it pushed to stable 
> almost immediately. :(

My recollection is that FESCo has specifically decided that maintainers
must not +1 their own updates, but this does not appear to be stated
anywhere in the updates policy:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy

Perhaps it should be updated.
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