catching broken deps
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Oct 25 14:16:28 UTC 2007
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede <at> hhs.nl> writes:
> * Packages with this error would get a special tag and rel-eng can override
> this for things like firefox updates, etc. But normally we do not want
> provides to go away with updates to a release.
I wouldn't say it like that. I'd say packages needing the changed provides
should get rebuilt and be pushed at the same time, but saying no provides
should ever change is going to be a problem for several libraries/packages
(Firefox being only the most obvious example). For example, we need to allow
for broken ABI compatibility for the KDE 4 development platform updates until
the 4.0 release (or at least the 4.0 development platform release, which will
be fairly soon). It's part of its nature as a tech preview.
Kevin Kofler
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