repository breakage

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:39 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:26 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> > Unless there is a reason to, can we *please* refrain from updating
> > packages that change a shared library version?

...and anyway when the need to roll such an update arises, it should be
announced on fedora-maintainers and/or here beforehand so people have
time to prepare.

> > In this case mplayer (from livna) is the only issue for me - hopefully
> > they will rebuild, but IMHO this should NOT have happened unless there
> > was a darned good reason for the update.
> xine (from livna) has the same issues.

Actually it's xine-lib, but FWIW, both issues have already been reported
there.

> That's what I consider a bug in yum: Why can't yum simply ignore such
> broken deps and just warn about them instead of erroring out?

Seconded, no need to rub it in end users faces.