[Fedora-packaging] Packages approved without satisfied dependencies

[Thomas Spura]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> On 12/11/13 14:22, Thomas Spura wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com
>> <mailto:vondruch at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Dne 12.11.2013 13:42, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski napsal(a):
>>
>>         On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 12:54, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>
>>             Hi,
>>
>>             I see more often then I would like that some packages get
>> pushed
>>             into Fedora and immediately appears among broken
>>             dependencies, since
>>             they were pushed into Fedora sooner then their dependencies.
>>
>>             So I propose to add one additional bullet into reviewer
>>             guidelines [1]:
>>
>>             "Package has to have satisfied all its dependencies prior it
>>             is approved."
>>
>>             Hopefully somebody will notice next time during review ....
>>
>>         *Sigh* it's another case of something so obvious that nobody
>> thought
>>         it needed to be spelled out before, but apparently it's
>>         necessary now,
>>         so +1.
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Dominik
>>
>>
>>     Better would be if it is technically impossible, but I have no idea
>>     how to achieve that :/ Actually, the script which creates the
>>     dist-git repo could check the .spec file and availability in Fedora
>>     and deny to create repo without satisfied dependencies, but it seems
>>     to be a bit overkill.
>>
>>
>> Hmm, is it usefull to have Requires, that are not installed on build
>> time? If a package has a Requires on something, and doesn't need it on
>> build time, build time is faster as the installation can be saved. But
>> other than that, it shouldn't hurt to just blindly install the requires
>> also on buildtime and in such cases it would fail.
>>
>> Are there other reasons except saving some installation time for not
>> installing the requires on build time?
>>
>
> There can be cases where packages run-require each other but don't
> build-require each other (which would of course be circular build
> dependencies).


Yeah... Right... Never mind...

Thanks,
   Tom
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/attachments/20131112/9beca7d0/attachment.html>