As per the FESCO meeting item list, and irc discussion, here is my humble attempt to identify via repoquery what packages are currently prone to library dependancy breakage without being noticed by the automated scripts which just look for rpm autogenerated library dependancies. these are packages which have a requirement on a library from firefox, but do not explicitly require firefox or gecko-libs: epiphany-extensions-0:2.16.1-1.i386 gnome-chemistry-utils-mozplugin-0:0.6.3-4.fc6.i386 openvrml-gtkplug-0:0.16.3-1.fc6.i386 openvrml-mozilla-plugin-0:0.16.3-1.fc6.i386 If you just look at packages which do not use a versioned firefox dep you also get: devhelp-0:0.12-9.fc6.i386 epiphany-0:2.16.2-1.fc6.i386 galeon-0:2.0.3-4.fc6.1.i386 gtkmozembedmm-0:1.4.2.cvs20060817-7.fc6.i386 libswt3-gtk2-1:3.2.1-23.fc6.i386 openvrml-0:0.16.3-1.fc6.i386 yelp-0:2.16.0-11.fc6.i386 The only packages which use a versioned firefox requirements are: gnome-python2-gtkmozembed-0:2.14.2-6.fc6.i386 liferea-0:1.0.26-2.fc6.i386 My suggestion is that all packages which end up requiring a library from firefox should use a versioned dependancy as long as firefox continues to keep its libraries in a versioned directory tree ( currently /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/ ). If a versioned firefox requirement is used we can atleast become aware of breakage as it happens via the available infrastructure scripts. As it stands the majority of the packages which depend on libraries from firefox will have library breakages on firefox updates and we can't see them from the available rpm dependancy information. Users will hit this issues when the library linker goes looking for a library in the wrong place. Comments? Should I start filing bugs against these packages to get versioned firefox requires added to their specfiles? Should we look at making this sort of thing part of the review process that should be checked for? Note that my use of repoquery still doesn't catch problematic packages like gnome-python2-extras nor esc which do not have trackable rpm library dependancies for repoquery to work with. -jef -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
