Another possible cause came up my mind. Another package in the buildroot could have brought it as a dependency, but does not bring it anymore ? -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat -- On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:08 PM Michal Schorm <mschorm(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > Hello folks > > I maintain 'mariadb-connector-c' package, which build (amongst others) > a plugin that utilizes kerberos authentication to the MariaDB > database. > > Recently, this very plugin stopped building. Everything else stayed the same. > The change appeared first after a commit that changes literally > nothing, but adds a "Requires: zlib-devel". > > I compared the build and released versions before and after the commit. > On the Rawhide it could have been some buildroot change. That happens. > But the problem exists not only in Rawhide, but F30 and F29 too. > > Simple add of "BuildRequires: krb5-devel" fixed the package. > However I'm generally upset, such change made it to the F29 buildroot, > breaking something. > > -- > > Can you help me confirm, you know about this change in stable, > released F29 buildroot (and I just missed an annoucement) ? > > Or do you spot a different cause? > > -- > > Package builds to examine: (compare 3.0.9-2 & 3.0.9-3) > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=19185 > > -- > > Michal Schorm > Software Engineer > Core Services - Databases Team > Red Hat > > --

Alright, I'm happy we found the cause and itś not something more severe. Thanks! -- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat -- On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:30 PM Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet(a)cea.fr&gt; wrote: > > Michal Schorm wrote on Wed, May 15, 2019 at 05:14:23PM +0200: > > Another possible cause came up my mind. > > > > Another package in the buildroot could have brought it as a > > dependency, but does not bring it anymore ? > > > -- > Dominique > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

On 5/15/19 10:50 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: I don't see why this is a problem. Removing an unneeded build dependency from a package shouldn't affect anything else. That it did merely pointed out a bug in the other package where the build deps were incomplete.

Vít Ondruch wrote on Thu, May 16, 2019 at 08:28:45AM +0200: The problem is not the build dependency, you can get rid of it everywhere without any impact except for openssl itself. What is less transparent is the removal of an actual Require (two actually, zlib-devel is no longer pulled either) ; that can impact other packages and workflows. Someone installing openssl-devel could have expected it to pull krb5-devel and zlib-devel, now they need to install it explicitely separately for their own use as well, it's a change in user interface. configure with feature autodetection is a PITA :/ -- Dominique

In meson we automatically set all "auto" features to be "enabled". So people have to disable things they don't want manually. On Thu, May 16, 2019, 10:00 Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

On Thu, 2019-05-16 at 07:50 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: Well... that's debatable. There is no promise that the stable releases won't break broken packages working only accidentaly. The fix is simple add the proper build dependency if you need it and do not depend on it being pulled in by something else. -- Tomáš Mráz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb [You'll know whether the road is wrong if you carefully listen to your conscience.]