rawhide report: 20071207 changes

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:55:48 +0000
"Paul F. Johnson" <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Broken deps for x86_64
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > 	amarok - 1.4.7-12.fc9.x86_64 requires libcrypto.so.6()(64bit)
> > 	amarok - 1.4.7-12.fc9.x86_64 requires libssl.so.6()(64bit)
> > 	amarok - 1.4.7-12.fc9.i386 requires libssl.so.6
> > 	amarok - 1.4.7-12.fc9.i386 requires libcrypto.so.6
> 
> <snip>
> 
> With so many packages reliant on openssl, is there any way that if openssl is
> rebuilt, the build system automatically tries to rebuild the packages reliant
> on it?

The problem with that is it's not always a simple rebuild that is
needed.  API/ABI changes, etc need an actual maintainer to look at them.

That, and then the buildsys would have to have CVS access to bump
the release of all those packages, and that just seems evil.

josh