Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2006-11-24

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:59:17 +0100, Till Maas wrote:

> On Sunday 26 November 2006 22:24, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> >     blender-2.42a-5.fc7.i386  requires  libgettextlib-0.15.so
> >
> > means "blender" is broken because no package provides the needed
> > "libgettextlib-0.15.so".
> 
> And what is it the maintainer of blender can do about this? Doesn't this mean, 
> that the maintainer of libgettext needs to do something?

In this case it means that "gettext" in Fedora Core Development was
upgraded in an incompatible way and provides a newer libgettextlib with a
new SONAME (on FC6 it is still "libgettextlib-0.14.6.so") and that
"blender" must be updated and compiled/linked with the upgraded
"gettext" and "gettext-devel" packages.

Dependencies on library SONAMEs are found by rpmbuild at build-time.
When "blender" was built, it was built against libgettextlib-0.15.so.
That library is no longer available, because "gettext" was upgraded.

HTH.