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[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>> Broken deps for ppc
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>       avahi-sharp-0.6.24-2.fc11.ppc requires mono(System) = 0:1.0.5000.0
>>>>
>>>> [cut]
>>>>>
>>>>>       taglib-sharp-2.0.3.2-2.fc11.ppc requires mono(mscorlib) =
>>>>> 0:2.0.0.0
>>>>>       tasque-0.1.8-2.fc11.ppc requires mono-core
>>>>>       tasque-0.1.8-2.fc11.ppc requires mono-data-sqlite
>>>>>       themonospot-0.7.1.1-2.fc11.ppc requires mono-core >= 0:1.2.3
>>>>>       webkit-sharp-0.2-1.fc11.ppc requires mono(mscorlib) = 0:1.0.5000.0
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why is there a huge number of broken mono dependencies, only in ppc.
>>>> Did we miss something?
>>>
>>> Read further up the mail where is states that mono on ppc has been
>>> disabled.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>
>> But first of all, such change (i.e. disabling ppc support on mono package)
>> must not be done at this stage where F-11 final freeze comes very soon
>> (4/14).
>> If it cannot be done to fix the latest mono package to support ppc again,
>> the lastest mono package must be untagged.
>
> There has been a number of discussions about this on fedora-devel over
> the last week or so, check the archives for details.
>

What I don't understand is, shouldn't such a change that affects
dozens of packages go through FESCo? If it did, why did we not see an
announcement with BIG CAPITAL LETTERS with cream on top?

Orcan