On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 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.
In the past I was (repeatedly) asking for "old" shlib packages _not_ to be pruned like this but "garbage collected" only. Both from _repository (to avoid dances when doing SONAME updates in Ring-0) and of course from published repositories. But appearantly it's not annoying often enough to warrant fixing... Richard.
Cheers, Dominique
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Richard Biener