Bug 1619364
| Summary: | gnucash-2.6.21-2.el7 breaks yum due to file conflicts with webkitgtk-2.4.9-1.el7 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora EPEL | Reporter: | James Ralston <ralston> |
| Component: | gnucash | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | epel7 | CC: | kfiresmith, notting, notting, pgervase |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | gnucash-2.6.21-4.el7 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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| Last Closed: | 2019-07-28 00:43:26 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
James Ralston
2018-08-20 15:43:43 UTC
webkitgtk is no longer an EPEL package, and is not a RHEL package. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1589486#c3, etc. It doesn't matter that webkitgtk is *currently* not an EPEL package. It *was* an EPEL package in the past, and accordingly, shipping a package update (gnucash-2.6.18-1.el7, in this case) that contains file conflicts with webkitgtk *must* assumed to be a breaking change, and should be announced in advance as per EPEL policy (1), if not avoided outright. I appreciate your effort in maintaining EPEL packages. As a Fedora packager, I know first-hand that shoehorning Fedora packages into RHEL is no easy task. (I have also tangled with the webkitgtk pile of sadness before, so I can empathize.) But kicking a package update out the door that you *know* will fatally break yum for everyone who had an older version of the package installed (and thus will have pulled in webkitgtk as a dependency), *without* announcing it in any way, is a d*ck move. A n00b Fedora/EPEL packager might not know any better. You do. Please either announce this breaking change (however belatedly) to fedora-announce, or else push new package updates that resolve the breakage. (1) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#Can_I_rely_on_these_packages.3F Eh, I'd say retiring webkitgtk entirely without informing downstream packagers or the announce list was a bit worse, but c'est la vie. Simplest fix is likely nuking the translations, but I'll have to check if that actually breaks something in those languages. FEDORA-EPEL-2019-aa8e8965dc has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-aa8e8965dc gnucash-2.6.21-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-aa8e8965dc gnucash-2.6.21-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |