Broken dependencies: gdal

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:15:47PM +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Alex Lancaster wrote:
>>>>>>> "OP" == Orion Poplawski  writes:
>>
>> OP> buildsys at 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.

Are there instructions in the spec file on how to create that
tarball, or why it's not the upstream tarball?

If not, file a bug and request that those either be added or
that it use an upstream tarball.

josh