[Bug 203520] Review Request: evolution-brutus

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Summary: Review Request: evolution-brutus
Alias: evolution-brutus

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203520





------- Additional Comments From colding at omesc.com  2006-09-07 07:21 EST -------
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > > * Why does this package use Autoreq: no ?
> > >   This description forbids finding libraries requirements, which I think
> > >   is quite unwilling. Even if you want to specify version-related
> > >   requirements, "Autoreq: no" is unnecessary because you can simply add
> > >   the requirements in addition to auto-finding requirements.
> > 
> > Please believe me when I say that I didn't do this lightly. The thing that
> > forced me to disable Autoreg is that at least one of the libraries (libebook if
> > I rememver correctly) that are provided internally by e-d-s changed version from
> > one stable release to another. I observed that when I:
> > 
> > 1) Installed evolution-brutus for testing
> > 2) Un-installed evolution-brutus
> > 3) did "yum update"
> > 4) Attempted to install evolution-brutus once more. This was now not possible
> > due to  Autoreq finding that one of the internal e-d-s libraries had changed
> > version.
> > 
> > The only way that I could fix this (please correct me if I'm wrong) was to
> > disable Autoreq.
> 
> This sounds to me like a regular shared library update that would require this
> package to be rebuilt against the updated e-d-s? What's different here that
> makes this not the case?

That is surely one way to fix it. My gripe with this is that perfectly fine RPMs
that installed with, say, eds-1.4.1 won't install with eds-1.4.1 due to the
changed version of some internal library in eds. I wouldn't mind to just rebuild
the RPMs if the library in question had API changes, but API changes in a stable
eds release serie should'nt happen, right?

Anyway, I won't mind one bit to re-enable Autoreq if that is the right thing to do. 

Thoughts? 
  jules


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