> There appear to be a boatload of broken deps for packages based on > clutter (presumably because of API bump from 0.9 to 1.0) that have > been listed here for over a week and no movement to fix most of them. It was actually broken on the move from 0.8 to 0.9 (and there were a couple of smaller api breakages during the 0.9 process). > Have the other apps been ported to the new API so they just need to be > built, or have they not yet been ported? (I tried to find an update > of cluttermm to 1.0 but only 0.9 versions are on the gnome site). No, they haven't in most cases been ported yet. All the pyclutter* stuff and cluttermm are still to be ported to the new API. The 0.9 versions if they are available might/should compile against 1.0. > If the latter, it would be nice the maintainer of clutter did an > inventory of dependent-packages and co-ordinate with downstream > consumers of clutter to make sure that there was a plan to update > those packages, or built a compat- package if necessary. Otherwise > users of rawhide are left with huge swathe of breakage: [snip] > I must be a broken record on this, but it would be nice if maintainers > could make announcements to all concerned (e.g. on > fedora-devel-announce) about API/soname etc. bumps in major > libraries/frameworks *before* they are put into motion so that the > dependent packages can be rebuilt in a timely manner. Or if that > causes too much breakage where, for example, many apps aren't ready to > be ported to the new version, then consider delaying the update for a > while or introducing compat- packages. No idea about the ghc stuff but until recently there wasn't really a owner to the clutter* stuff. > Otherwise breakage goes on for weeks and necessitating a rush to > rebuild the software by provenpackagers just before a freeze which > leaves an inadequate time for user/developer testing on rawhide. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
