On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 20:30 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > But I want to be clear, this is not a navel gazing exercise, where I > want to dream up the ideal notification tools meant to solve all > maintainer coordination problems and cure cancer. I am looking to > solve a very specific problem. We need a way to prevent undue delay in > correcting packages which are broken by firefox rebuilds (or other > packages) because of changes in the versioned directory tree location > which are currently undiscoverable from an rpm based dependency > checking perspective. We have a situation right now where linked in > libraries are going missing on installed system and our available rpm > based depchecking scripts are not catching it. Seems to me FireFox's packaging is fundamentally broken if RPM dep tracking can't detect this already. Some judicious use of virtual provides and dep-filtering maybe? Since the packages are apparently dependent on a versioned directory, maybe they all need to just Require: firefox = 1.5.foo.bar ...
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