Broken dependencies with Fedora 13 + updates-testing - 2010-07-09

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:50:01 +0100, pbrobinson wrote:
>
>> > The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies:
>> >
>> > ======================================================================
>> > The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
>> > ======================================================================
>> >
>> > package: syncevolution-0.9.2+1.0alpha1-1.fc13.i686 from fedora-13-x86_64
>> >  unresolved deps:
>> >     libedataserver-1.2.so.11
>>
>> I'm not sure where this dep is getting pulled in from as the current
>> version in F-13 is 1.0-3
>
> Let me reduce the information in an attempt to show how to interpret above
> quote:
>
>   syncevolution.i686  from  fedora-13-x86_64
>
> That's multiarch breakage! Fedora 13 was released with syncevolution.i686 in
> the x86_64 repo, and the 1.0-3 update did not place its i686 pkg in the
> x86_64 updates repo. Anyone with the old syncevolution installed as both
> i686 and x86_64 would see the unresolvable dependency.
>
> Questions: Have you changed the dependency-chain? Or has "mash" changed its
> multiarch compose strategy? (same question related to F12 "perl")

I think the libs were split out into a subpackage so that those that
wished to use them didn't have to pull in the full dep chain. That
would have been the only change I'm aware of.

Peter