FC6 updates broken deps?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:59, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> Does that depcheck also cover multi-lib? Because except for the
>> first one, I still see these:
>>
>> source rpm: python-virtinst-0.98.0-1.fc6.src.rpm
>> package: python-virtinst - 0.98.0-1.fc6.noarch from
>> fedora-core-updates-6-ppc unresolved deps:
>>      libvirt-python >= 0:0.1.4-4
>>
>> source rpm: bind-9.3.4-2.fc6.src.rpm
>> package: bind-devel - 31:9.3.4-2.fc6.i386 from fedora-core-updates-6-x86_64
>>   unresolved deps:
>>      libdns.so.22
>>      libbind9.so.0
>>      libisccc.so.0
>>      liblwres.so.9
>>      libisccfg.so.1
>>      libisc.so.11
>>
>> source rpm: compiz-0.3.6-2.fc6.src.rpm
>> package: compiz-devel - 0.3.6-2.fc6.i386 from fedora-core-updates-6-x86_64
>>   unresolved deps:
>>      libdecoration.so.0
>>
>> source rpm: kdeedu-3.5.6-0.1.fc6.src.rpm
>> package: kdeedu - 3.5.6-0.1.fc6.i386 from fedora-core-updates-6-x86_64
>>   unresolved deps:
>>      libpython2.4.so.1.0
>>
>> source rpm: kdeutils-3.5.6-0.1.fc6.src.rpm
>> package: kdeutils-devel - 6:3.5.6-0.1.fc6.i386 from
>> fedora-core-updates-6-x86_64 unresolved deps:
>>      libkmilo.so.1
>>      libkregexpeditorcommon.so.1
>>      libksimcore.so.1
>>      libkhexeditcommon.so.0
>>      libkcmlaptop.so.0
>>
>> source rpm: poppler-0.5.4-5.fc6.src.rpm
>> package: poppler-devel - 0.5.4-5.fc6.i386 from fedora-core-updates-6-x86_64
>>   unresolved deps:
>>      libpoppler-qt.so.1
> 
> Hrm, I'm not entirely sure, I'll have to defer to Luke Macken on that one.
> 
> I'm surprised that these haven't been reported before, people are generally 
> really quick to notice broken deps in the updates repos.
> 
> 
Really - The reason dependency issues are such a big issue for fedora is 
  that all updates are held back because of a single package missing a 
dependency. I'm sure everybody would feel better holding back one 
package instead of all updates on this account.

/Thomas