On 09/20/2011 03:01 PM, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 13:53 +0200, Johannes Lips wrote: >> What's wrong with all that broken deps? Is this just a missing rebuild >> against opencv and other libs or what's the reason for all this >> "mess". I mean the release of F16 is not that far away and the amount >> of broken deps is quite big imho. >> I would be glad helping out if this is due to some orphaned packages. > > Some of these seem to be a case of "new library version was built and > pushed as an update without the rebuilds of dependent components". It > seems to be unclear who is responsible for the dependents to be rebuilt > and included in the same update as the library being updated. When you have a closer look, you'll notice that such "mass rebuilts" were being delayed by QA's "delay queue" and now are stuck. > Currently > I only see mails of maintainers who plan updating the library, but the > rest of it pretty much depends on the maintainers of the depending > components rebuilding them quickly enough, and the original maintainer > to include them in the F-16 branched update. > > I'd like to see a discussion about how we can ensure -- within > reasonable limits -- that e.g. bumping a library's SONAME is followed by > dependent components being rebuilt and included with the providing > component in one update. I'd like to see a discussion on the proceedures currently being applied by QA, esp. "during freezes". IMO, they are unsuitable and harmful. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
