Broken dependencies in Fedora 11 - 2009-08-20

[Till Maas]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:07:47PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Indeed. A single tomboy build obsoleted more than a dozen Mono packages
> > and actually got marked stable sometimes later without anyone adding
> > a comment.
> 
> I'd blame the tomboy maintainer for the chaos there. Before you push an 
> update to a package, you MUST check for previous updates for the package 
> (possibly filed by somebody else, Bodhi will NOT mail you about them, even 
> if you are the maintainer!), and if it's a grouped update, you CANNOT push a 
> new update for your package, you MUST get it updated in the group instead.

I'd blame the bad workflow and the unexpected beheaviour of bodhi. Btw.
all your steps are not documented in the Package Update Howto[0] and are
probably not valid anymore, since the auto obsoletion is disabled now.
But I do not really know how Bodhi would behave now.

Regards
Till

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO
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