Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras development - 2007-05-02

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 5 May 2007 12:19:50 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:32:42PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 May 2007 16:53:48 -0000, Fedora Extras repoclosure wrote:
> > 
> > > Summary of broken packages (by owner):
> > > 
> > >     cbalint AT redhat.com
> > >         gdal - 1.4.0-22.fc7.i386     
> > >         gdal - 1.4.0-22.fc7.ppc     
> > >         gdal - 1.4.0-22.fc7.x86_64     
> > 
> > Not yet. But the "dap" updates in needsign will break it.
> 
> I know it is pretty bad to break sonames that late in the release
> cycle, but I updated the whole dap stack while fixing a security
> issue. I also notified Cristian by mail.

Which apparently was possible to fix for FC-6 without an upgrade of libdap:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repoview/libdap.html

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repoview/dap-server.html


Does gdal rebuild without problems?
Has that been tried?
Library package owners really need to negotiate with owners of dependencies
about the possibility to submit simple rebuilds themeselves.