There are currently separate updates for nss 3.33.0 and nspr 4.17.0 in both Fedora 26 and 27. However, nss 3.33.0 requires nspr 4.17.0. As a reminder, this is a violation of the Updates Policy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Updating_inter-dependent_packages "When one updated package requires another (or more than one other), the packages should be submitted together as a single update." The problem with doing things this way is that, if the nss update happened to be pushed stable before the nspr update (which could easily happen due to human error, network issues etc. even if the maintainer *intends* to push them together!), the dependencies in the stable repository will be broken; nss will not be installable. In this case there's an even worse consequence; if you do attempt to update to nss 3.33.0 without nspr 4.17.0 dnf will 'skip' *most* of the nss packages (as it notices that they are missing dependencies), but it *will* install nss-softokn-freebl . With this mix of packages (most of nss at 3.32.0, but nss-softokn-freebl at 3.33.0), nss and anything that depends on it just fails to work at all - e.g. curl and dnf...so that's an extremely bad outcome. If both packages are in a single update, we cannot run into this problem; either both packages get pushed stable or neither does. That is why updates to interdependent packages should *always* be grouped together. Please remember this, package maintainers. Thanks! (note: this issue was caught by openQA, which tests individual updates from updates-testing, rather than enabling the repository wholesale, so it catches things like this.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
