On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:37:01AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 02:29:47PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > We received a bug report that generated RPM dependencies are too > > coarse in rawhide (#1409557). > > > > The bug report is correct at a technical level. But I assumed that > > it was not a problem because partial upgrades are in rawhide are not > > supported—it's always all-or-nothing. > > I think officially, we don't "support" anything but all-or-nothing > upgrades in *all* branches. That is, if you cherry-pick an update from > updates (or even updates-testing) and it also needs some other package > to be upgraded even when that's not made clear from the deps, our > stance is "oh, upgrade everything and then it will work".
I would describe this particular situation as a bug. Dependencies should be real, and encode version numbers if it's relevant. -- Tomasz Torcz ,,If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl an IP-routable hand grenade.'' -- Andrew Morton (LKML) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
