Dependencies breakage in released Fedora versions (twice now)

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Hi All,

The last week I've had bugs filed twice against packages I maintain because 
their dependencies had broken, and this is not with rawhide but in F-9 and F-8 !!

One of these 2 breakages was due to a php version bump for security reasons, 
and I can live with that. One kind request to Joe Orton (in the CC) though, 
next time if you have the time please remember that maniadrive has a full 
versioned dependency on php and will break with each upstream version change. 
All my packages are wide open so next time please feel free to rebuild 
maniadrive and include it in the update.

The other dependency breakage though is due to rddtool (which also included a 
shared libary) being updated from a release candidate to the final, and this 
change includes a soname change. This is not acceptable in a released version 
unless there is a _really_ _really_ good reason, and even if there is a really_ 
_really_ good reason this should have been coordinated with any dependend packages.

Perhaps we can add a dependency check in bodhi, or if that slows bodhi down to 
much atleast run the dep-checking script currently run on rawhide also on "F-x 
+ upodates + updates-testing", running the dep-checking script on "F-x + 
upodates + updates-testing" would have caught both these dep breakages as both 
packages have gone through testing first.

Then any broken deps should be mailed to the maintainers of the involved 
packages and to rel-eng, which then should block (or completely reject) non 
critical updates until the deps are solved.

Regards,

Hans