DNF as default package manager

[drago01]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Dne 21.1.2015 v 12:34 Peter Robinson napsal(a):
>>> Are we expected to cross referencing previous logs to see if there's
>>> changes or if it's the same and provide you that information? We
>>> already have too much to do so it's easier to stick with yum where we
>>> know what the outcome is. Sorry, not going to do your work for you! Peter
>>
>> I'd expect that if we are speaking about DNF as default (and it was
>> approved by FESCo), that releng do scratch mass rebuild of all these 18k
>> packages built using DNF and give us list of failed packages. What are
>> these failures is not your concern but package maintainers concern.
>
> If they build with yum why is it a bug in the packaging?

Because the deps expressed in the package apparently really on a
specific implementation detail of yum which
is just wrong so:

1) There is bug in dnf as you state
2) Assuming the package set that dnf resolves satsify the expressed
deps it *is* a bug in the package.