On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:25 PM Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 29 May 2018 at 15:49, Fedora Rawhide Report <rawh...@fedoraproject.org> 
> wrote:
> [..]
>>
>> Package:      dnf-2.7.5-15.fc29
>> Old package:  dnf-2.7.5-12.fc29
>> Summary:      Package manager
>> RPMs:         dnf dnf-automatic dnf-data dnf-yum python2-dnf python3-dnf
>> Added RPMs:   dnf-data
>> Dropped RPMs: dnf-conf
>> Size:         1.82 MiB
>> Size change:  342.44 KiB
>> Changelog:
>>   * Fri May 25 2018 Martin Hatina <mhat...@redhat.com> - 2.7.5-13
>>   - Rebase to dnf from dnf-2-modularity-6 release.
>>
>>   * Fri May 25 2018 Martin Hatina <mhat...@redhat.com> - 2.7.5-14
>>   - Fix patch applying.
>>
>>   * Mon May 28 2018 Martin Hatina <mhat...@redhat.com> - 2.7.5.15
>>   - Do not require libdnf
>
>
> It is yet another hidden change not listed in above.
> python3-dnf subpackage started (again) require deltarp.
> Previouselly is spec was "Recommends: deltarpm" and now it is (again) 
> "Requires: deltarpm"
> dnf maintainer(s) knows about this 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1583834
> However for some reason looks like they prefers to apply kind of ostrich 
> tactics.
>
> Because today has been published next dnf release I'm going to repeating the 
> bugzilla ticket question about deltrpm question but this time publically.
>
> I want to believe that it was nothing more than trivial mistake because 
> Fedora does not offer repo with delta files so fixed instead weak dependency 
> does not make here IMO sense, and such change only pointlessly enlarges the 
> size of the @core.
>

The DNF team mistakenly believed that DNF tolerated deltarpm not being
installed like YUM did. That's not the case, so it was reverted. They
originally tried to make it a weak dependency for RHEL, but it didn't
work out well...


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