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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