On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 1:27 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 02:14:58AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 18:43:56 -0800, > > Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >Second, I'd like to suggest that in the future, at least in > > >Fedora, for any "install" or "update" operation that dnf performs, > > >dnf's default behavior should be checking all of the direct and > > >indirect dependencies of the packages being installed (or updated) > > >and updating any dependencies which have updates available. > > > > > >Does anyone else have any opinions on the subject? Should I > > >simply file a bug against dnf proposing this behavior? > > > > If there is a problem with not uodating dependencies when you do an > > install or an update on selected packages, the packages dependencies > > are not properly defined. > > You're correct, but ... > > It's quite often the case that updates fail because of a missing > symbol in some library that wasn't updated. I think this even happens > if you're using symbol versioning, but in any case many libraries > don't use symbol versioning[1]. > > Gordon's suggestion is a pretty good one for fixing this common > problem without making developers add full ">= version" dependencies > to every BuildRequires line in every package they maintain. >
This breaks down as soon as you talk about swapping library implementations. The most recent example of this was SDL -> sdl12-compat. Initially, the latter's version scheme didn't match the former at all. If we had this, then replacing the library would have been more painful to do. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
