Multilib extras packages need i386 libpython2.4.so on x86_64

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:29:29 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> Moving discussion to Fedora Maintainers to bring in core development.
> 
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:38:20 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > 
> >>> Broken packages in fedora-extras-development-x86_64:
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>     csound-5.03.0-5.fc7.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0
> >>>     k3d-0.6.3.1-1.fc6.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0
> >>>     koffice-core-1.6.0-2.fc7.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0
> >>>     koffice-kivio-1.6.0-2.fc7.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0
> >>>     plplot-5.6.1-7.fc6.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0
> >>>     plplot-gnome-5.6.1-7.fc6.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0
> >>>     scribus-1.3.3.4-1.fc6.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0
> >>>
> >> Why is libpython2.4.so.1.0 missing on x86_64 but not i386?
> > 
> > This is multi-lib enabled Fedora Extras Development.
> > 
> > In addition to Wine (and its dependencies), now i386 -devel packages and
> > their dependencies are available in x86_64 Extras, too.
> > 
> > If libpython2.4.so.1.0 i386 (!) is not in Rawhide x86_64, we need to talk
> > about it and either start black-listing i386 Extras packages, which we
> > don't want to have multi-lib enabled (or fix the sub-packages).
> > 
> > Above are dependencies of:
> > 
> >   csound-devel
> >   k3d-devel
> >   koffice-devel
> >   plplot-devel
> >   scribus-devel
> > 
> 
> So, are the above packages in error, or do we need to get i386 
> libpython2.4.so into the x86_64 tree?

Very doubtful, because:

$ rpm -q --whatprovides libpython2.4.so.1.0
python-2.4.3-18.fc6