[opensuse-factory] Package numbering issue

Hi, Sometimes, when a package is rebuilt against a new version of a given library, it's version number isn't increased. This results with missing dependencies problem. As an illustration, lftp-3.5.4-5 dated September 15th was linked against the libgnutls.so.12 library. The gnutls package was updated to gnutls-1.4.1-3 on September 19th replacing the libgnutls.so.12library by the libgnutls.so.13 one. lftp was also rebuilt against the new libgnutls.so.13library to take into account this change but was unfortunately still numbered 3.5.4-5. Thus, the new gnutls-1.4.1-3 package couldn't be installed, because the already installed lftp-3.5.4-5 would miss the libgnutls.so.12 library. The only solution was to perform a rpm -Uvh --force on the lftp-3.5.4-5 to replace the one linked against the libgnutls.so.12library. Other packages exhibit the same issue (some gnome 2.16 packages at this time) and it's very difficult to determine if the bugs I'm experiencing on my system are due to missing updates because the package revision hasn't been changed. Is there something wrong with the openSUSE building system? Cheers, Emeric
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Émeric Maschino