On 10/24/07, Richi Plana <myfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess I should have added that the reason the update broke yelp and > devhelp is that they both require a specific version of the virtual > provides gecko-libs which firefox-2.0.0.8 updates. These are well understood problems with how firefox is packaged. These problems are some of the reasons why we wanted to get xulrunner packaged so that the libraries that are being asked for can be packaged seperately from the firefox application in a reasonable way. This is further complicated by the fact that pretty much every firefox update is a security update and as a result is not going to see staging in updates-testing. You are absolutely NOT going to see security updates postponed for deps to catch up. Until we are able to get xulrunner in place, any package which > The questions still > apply, though. I believe that we do in fact have dependancy chain breakage scripts running and those scripts do email maintainers which depchains break. But again because this is a security update I'm not sure those scripts will fire in a reasonable time to prevent seeing end-user breakage. We've been fighting the firefox dependancy chain problem for a long while now, and its not going to get any better until we get xulrunner in distro. As a user of packages which dep on firefox or gecko-libs, you best course of action is to be as proactive as possible at filing and re-opening bugreports to make sure the maintainers who need to rebuild packages..do so as quickly as possible after a firefox security update. And on a side-note applications sure as hell have a good reason to dep on firefox over gecko-libs. Anything that's using the libraries needs to be depping on gecko-libs so when the xulrunner conversion happens they are prepared for it. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
