On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:36:43 +0200 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:52:22 -0700, S (stan) wrote: > > > These are dependency errors I get when I try to update to the latest > > version of ImageMagick. I don't see them in the branched report, so > > thought I would report them. > > http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/ImageMagick > > There is ongoing work on publishing upgrades of ImageMagick, which are > ABI incompatible with earlier releases. It's not clear to me why > rebuilds of dependencies are missing, but it seems some package > maintainers don't respond, and the entire [co]-maintainer setup to do > such rebuilds is lacking. Thanks for the clarification. > For multiple versions of some software to be installable in parallel, > it would be necessary to resolve conflicts in the packages *and* > rename either package, so the new one does not replace the older one. > This can result in a lot of work, which isn't worth effort. Ah yes, a major issue. Hmmm, doesn't seem to be a trivial solution to this. Probably would require some sort of time versioning associated with files. > Especially not if the old release suffers from vulnerabilities. You > don't want to keep it. You want to replace it quickly. The thing is, though, that the update is being held up by these dependencies. It seems to me it would be better to let the updates update as soon as they are available, and let dependent packages update as they can. This would plug the most holes the soonest. i.e. while we're waiting for dependencies to get updated with the fixed package, the fixed package that is ready can't install. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
