On Sun, 2018-06-10 at 18:27 +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > Hi, > > The "libgda" package is quite broken in fedora, which is impacting > dependent programs. > > - The last successful build of libgda was for the fedora 24 (!) mass > rebuild. No more recent builds succeeded, and the packages was > reported as FTBFS. > - Not even the latest version is packaged (5.2.2 instead of 5.2.4). > > This is leading to problems in all current releases of fedora. For > example, the mysql database provider can't be installed anymore, > because libgda wasn't rebuilt for soname bumps in mariadb/mysql. > > Packages depending on libgda include: > > - anjuta > - glom > - gnumeric-plugins-extras > - gtranslator > - noise > - sequeler > > Is there any procedure for dealing with a package that's obviously > outdated and broken (and has been for 3 fedora releases), but is > still depended on by other packages? > > There has been an open bug report [0] about the FTBFS issues, but no > actions have been taken so far by the package maintainer(s). > > Fabio > > [0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1423852 I see 3 patches there and we got another bug report [1] The best would be add one pull request in src.f.o [2] , i.e do a fork apply the patch and submit one pull request . [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1556039 [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libgda/pull-requests -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/KGBVPAILSYUXYYWPOGECPPSCDYMICFIX/
