[maemo-developers] libgsf-1-114 (needed to build Abiword) not found

[From: Ryan Pavlik]

Roberto Resoli wrote:
> 2008/2/9, Thomas Schmidt <tschmidt at debian.org>:
>   
>> * Roberto Resoli schrieb am 09.02.08, um 15:16 Uhr:
>>     
>>>> There is no need to build libgsf, i built and uploaded it to
>>>> extras-devel on monday because it is required for the Gnumeric package.
>>>>         
>>> oh nice!
>>> many thx!
>>>       
>> No problem.
>>
>>     
>>> By the way, have you hitten an solved my same issue? I also tried to
>>> build libgsf, but starting from ubuntu gutsy sources...
>>>       
>> Well, i did not experience these problem, maybe the differences between
>> the ubuntu and debian unstable sources are causing this, see:
>>
>> http://patches.ubuntu.com/libg/libgsf/libgsf_1.14.7-2ubuntu1.patch
>>     
>
> yes, i definitely think these ubuntu modifications could cause my problems
>
>   
>> Another reason might be some missing build-dependancies like liborbit2
>> (it did build and upload this package to extras-devel too), did you
>> remove some of the Build-Dependancies in debian/control to be able to
>> build libgsf, or were you able to fulfil all build-dependancies?
>>     
>
> I removed only --enable-gtk-doc and --with-gnome config flags from debian/rules
>
> many thanks
> Roberto
>   
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Schmidt, Debian VDR Team
>> http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/
>>     
Is it generally agreed that when porting dependencies we use a 
particular source for packages?  (For instance, some release in 
particular of Debian or Ubuntu)  In lieu of such an agreement, is there 
a source that generally provides packages that work well in the Maemo 
environment?

Ryan