Spicebird in rawhide provides 46 sonames, which are provided by
the following other packages:

nss
nspr
mozldap
xulrunner

It does so for libs stored outside run-time linker's search path. This leads
to weak RPM dependencies. The worst-case scenario would be that one could
remove a required package, because RPM believes that spicebird is one
of multiple packages which satisfy the requirement.

Two examples of how the soname provides are polluted:

nss provides libssl3.so(NSS_3.2)
spicebird provides libssl3.so(NSS_3.2)
required by: adminutil - 1.1.6-1.fc10.i386
required by: evolution - 2.23.4-2.fc10.i386
required by: evolution-data-server - 2.23.4-1.fc10.i386
required by: fedora-ds-admin - 1.1.5-1.fc10.i386
required by: fedora-ds-base - 1.1.1-2.fc10.i386
required by: jss - 4.2.5-2.fc9.i386
required by: libcurl - 7.18.2-2.fc10.i386
required by: libpurple - 2.4.3-1.fc10.1.i386
required by: mailx - 12.3-0.fc10.i386
required by: mod_nss - 1.0.7-5.fc10.i386
required by: mod_revocator - 1.0.2-4.fc9.i386
required by: mozldap - 6.0.5-2.fc9.i386
required by: nss-tools - 3.12.0.3-3.fc10.i386
required by: nss_compat_ossl - 0.9.2-4.fc9.i386
required by: spicebird - 0.4-5.fc8.i386
required by: xulrunner - 1.9-1.fc10.i386

spicebird provides libxpcom.so
xulrunner provides libxpcom.so
required by: Miro - 1.2.4-2.fc10.i386
required by: blam - 1.8.3-13.fc9.i386
required by: cairo-dock-plug-ins-gecko - 1.6.1-0.1.svn1163_trunk.fc10.i386
required by: devhelp - 0.19.1-1.fc10.i386
required by: evolution-rss - 0.0.8-7.fc9.i386
required by: firefox - 3.0-1.fc10.i386
required by: galeon - 2.0.5-3.fc10.i386
required by: gnome-python2-gtkmozembed - 2.19.1-16.fc9.i386
required by: gnome-web-photo - 0.3-12.fc9.i386
required by: gnomesword - 2.3.4-2.fc10.i386
required by: gtkmozembedmm - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-20.fc9.i386
required by: libswt3-gtk2 - 1:3.3.2-12.fc9.i386
required by: mugshot - 1.2.1-1.fc10.i386
required by: ruby-gtkmozembed - 0.17.0-0.2.rc1.fc10.i386
required by: xulrunner - 1.9-1.fc10.i386
required by: xulrunner-devel - 1.9-1.fc10.i386
required by: yelp - 2.22.1-2.fc10.i386
required by: spicebird - 0.4-5.fc8.i386

And during installation of those packages, it's only the "shortest pkg name
wins" in Yum depsolving, which protects us from problems. Plus explicit deps
on specific pkg names.

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Michael Schwendt wrote:

> spicebird Provides pollution

Thanks Michael,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453936

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2008/7/3 Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>> spicebird Provides pollution
>
> Thanks Michael,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453936
>
The conflicting soname as sense, since spicebird built it's own
internal xulrunner.
Shoudn't we prevent that ?

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Michael Schwendt wrote:

Spicebird in rawhide provides 46 sonames, which are provided by
the following other packages:


You need
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/thunderbird/F-9/find-external-requires?rev=1.1&view=log


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On Thursday 03 July 2008 04:08:46 pm Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Spicebird in rawhide provides 46 sonames, which are provided by
> > the following other packages:
>
> You need
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/thunderbird/F-9/find-external-req
>uires?rev=1.1&view=log

The problem is the spicebird folks have patched xulrunner to work with their
app. I've checked upstream and this is still the case, it will not build
against a stock xulrunner. For this reason I am pulling the package until
this is resolved.


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