rawhide report: 20120824 changes

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Sam 25 août 2012 11:54, Dodji Seketeli a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Fedora Rawhide Report <rawhide at fedoraproject.org> a écrit:
>
>> firefox-14.0.1-3.fc19
>> ---------------------
>> * Wed Aug 22 2012 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 14.0.1-3
>> - add fix for secondary arches from xulrunner
>
> With this update and ...
>
>> xulrunner-15.0-1.b6.fc19
>> ------------------------
>> * Wed Aug 22 2012 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 15.0-1
>> - Update to 15.0
>
> ... this one, when I launch firefox today in Rawhide, I get:
>
>     Error: Platform version '15.0' is not compatible with
>     minVersion >= 14.0.1
>     maxVersion <= 14.0.1
>
> This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851722
>
> I naively thought 'yum downgrade xulrunner' would get me back to the
> previous xulrunner, but it just doesn't do anything.  Is that expected?

I think it has been reported several times already, but why the hell is
this check done at run time and not via packages reqs?

If the check is useless it should not be done at all. If it's useful why
are we allowing broken combinations to hit user systems?

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot