Re: Broken dependencies: gdal

[Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org>]

Alex Lancaster wrote:
> > > > > > "OP" == Orion Poplawski  writes:
>
> OP> buildsys fedoraproject org wrote:
> > > gdal has broken dependencies in the development tree:
> > > On ppc:
> > > gdal-1.6.0-4.fc11.ppc64 requires libhdf5.so.5()(64bit)
> > > gdal-1.6.0-4.fc11.ppc64 requires libodbcinst.so.1()(64bit)
> > > gdal-1.6.0-4.fc11.ppc64 requires libodbc.so.1()(64bit)
>
> OP> I'm happy to do the bootstrap rebuild to fix this, but ACLs are closed.
>
> I've repeatedly requested the maintainer open up the ACLs on these
> packages, but never received a response to my e-mails on this subject.
> It's very frustrating.
>
> What is the procedure in these cases to get a maintainer to justify
> keeping ACLs closed?  Escalate to FESCo?

It's also using a non-verifiable source tarball:

Source0:   %{name}-%{version}-fedora.tar.gz

when the upstream source is easily downloadable at

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.0.tar.gz


That's unacceptable.