Error: Missing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.7 is needed by package xine-lib-extras-nonfree

[Michael Schwendt]

On 16/06/07, David Boles wrote:
> >
> > xine-lib 1.1.7 in Fedora was released today, only a few hours ago:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-June/msg00325.html
> >
> > On the contrary, xine-lib-extras-nonfree 1.1.7 was released yesterday already:
> > http://livna.org/pipermail/freeworld/2007-June/001586.html
>
> Your second package, xine-lib-extras-nonfree 1.1.7 from Livna, caused
> your dependancy problem not the package from Fedora. Fedora has nothing
> to do with or any control over the package from Livna because the
> package from Livna,

Return to my original reply. ;-)

Yes, Livna's premature release of the xine-lib-extras-nonfree upgrade
had broken the dependencies first while Fedora's corresponding
xine-lib upgrade was still sitting in Updates-Testing.

An accident in coordinating the release time for *both* updates.

The package maintainers behind the xine-lib* packages are not stupid.
Think twice! It's just that coordinating updates in the new merged
Core+Extras universe requires adaptations. An early message in this
thread suggested filing a bug report at Livna. And that's where I
disagreed in this particular case, because Fedora's package was just
waiting for release.