On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 16:25 +0100, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Dear hackers and packagers,
My sincere apologies - once again we are struck by a delete request having impacts way beyond what we expect to to touch.
As part of the cleanup activities, gcc5 has been removed from the distro. This also impacts libffi4; The distro has gained a new libffi implementation (libffi7, version 3.2.1) which has been around for a while.
As we now deleted libffi4, though, it became apparent that not everything is yet rebuilt against libffi7 (no real surprise there: we have the rebuild strategy of least changes implemented)
So far nothing bad - except: as libffi4 has been removed from openSUSE:Factory, this not only impacts /standard (which we would not have a problem - ever), but also /snapshot. Which means all the builds against openSUSE:Tumbleweed will be broken at least until the next snapshot can be published (0313 that is).
I apologize for this issue caused and will be trying to find a workaround for now to get you guys going again. Please stay tuned.
I filed this as https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/17688
Any ideas are welcome on how to avoid this in the future - the more
automatic it is, the higher the chance of it not failing again.
Please keep the discussion on -buildservice or in the ticket.
-packaging should merely be informed of the outcome in the end.
Cheers,
Dominique
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Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger