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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How broken are RPM dependencies allowed to be?</H1>
<B>Liam R E Quin</B>
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<I>Wed Dec 14 03:04:39 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 16:31 -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote:
><i> I raised a bug ticket on drakxtools (#3731) because the RPM in Cauldron
</I>><i> installs without complaints in Mageia 1 but won't work there because
</I>><i> it requires a newer version of perl. The perl dependency in the
</I>><i> RPM is listed as "perl-base" when it should really be something like
</I>><i> "perl-base >= 5.14.2" (Mageia 1 ships with version 5.12.3). The response
</I>><i> I got was that such an upgrade (from release to Cauldron) wasn't supported
</I>><i> and this bug was likely a wontfix.
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It's really hard to test for dependencies like this, as the person
building the package will have working versions of everything.
Worse, in two years' time, perl-base of 5.14.3 will be hopelessly
outdated (we all expect, at least). So it becomes one more thing to
maintain.
But it's also a problem worth solving for some of the system-critical
components such as perl, urpmi and drak*. I don't think "wontfix" is a
good answer here.
My Mandriva Cooker system was unbootable for a while recently because
upgrading udev didn't pull in other required packages; the desktop
wasn't working for similar reasons. You can say, don't stop
mid-upgrade, but a network outage or a power failure can make such
things happen.
Liam
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