[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 paul at city-fan.org  2006-09-07 07:05 EST -------
(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?

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