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

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:42:34PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > 
> > 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

Indeed, but I wanted to avoid having an old version of libdap through 
F7, and since I updated dap-server I took the opportunity to update
the whole stack.

> Does gdal rebuild without problems?
> Has that been tried?

No. Indeed I should have tried. I'll try now.

> Library package owners really need to negotiate with owners of dependencies
> about the possibility to submit simple rebuilds themeselves.

I proposed that to Cristian.

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Pat