Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras Development

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Wed, October 19, 2005 09:34, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 10/19/05, Linus Walleij <triad at df.lth.se> wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>
>> > Here's the list of problems in the Fedora Extras devel trees found by
>> a
>> > slightly modified repoclosure script:
>>
>> Was this caused by the recent purge of old package versions as expected
>> by
>> my previous mail on library versioning and keeping old versions for
>> satisfying old dependencies?
>
> this is just a fact of life for the extras development tree... because
> its pulling deps from rawhide. And rawhide.. at times...can see
> significant upheaval...packages being updated to new versions or just
> completely removed or re-organized.

Actually Rawhide is very good at showing up broken deps in FC specs no one
notices in releases because they happen to be fulfilled even if they
haven't been properly declared in the packages themselves.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot