Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-01-16
Denis Leroy
denis at poolshark.org
Wed Jan 17 01:13:10 UTC 2007
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:24, Denis Leroy wrote:
>> Hmmm, so why is a binary-incompatible version of libburn being pushed so
>> late in the lifetime of FC-6 ? I have a package (brasero) that doesn't
>> compile with libburn.so.6. This is a somehwat careless dependency
>> breaking, it's not hard to check what packages are dependent on this...
>
> Oh wow, I had no idea that anybody was actually using libburn. My bad.
>
> Upstream really wanted to get the new libburn/libisofs out as they've made a
> lot of improvements. Since we don't have any sort of updates-testing for
> Extras, I built it for rawhide and let it sit there for a bit. Nobody
> complained, so I built the update for FC-6.
Ok, turns out the patch to port to the newer libburn/libisofs API wasn't
all that bad, so this is now fixed :-)
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