Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora 7 + Test Updates - 2007-10-16

[Denis Leroy]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 01:31 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
>>>     extras-orphan AT fedoraproject.org
>>>         ktrack - 0.3.0-15.rc1.fc6.i386     
>>>         ktrack - 0.3.0-15.rc1.fc6.ppc     
>>>         ktrack - 0.3.0-15.rc1.fc6.x86_64     
>> Caused by my hamlib update, but ktrack is an orphaned package, and I'm 
>> not interested in maintaining it. What's the way to go here ?
>> May I do a one-time rebuild of ktrack for F-7 only ?
> 
> As an orphaned package I think it's best to remove it from the repos
> entirely. It has no active maintainer in Fedora and according to their
> website, upstream seems to have died more than one year ago.
> 
> However, if you want to temporarily take ownership of it just to push an
> updated build, please be aware that a rebuild against new libraries can
> sometimes cause weird and crazy bugs to arise from the updated libs,
> depending on API/ABI usage and such, especially if the code depends on
> various quirks or tweaks in the library which have since been fixed or
> removed.

There's a risk yes, but it's easy enough to test I think. If the app 
seems healthy, I'd go ahead and do a rebuild so that I least we don't 
break the updates of people who have ktrack already installed. Removing 
it from the repo wouldn't solve their problem.