[maemo-developers] Updated versions of libraries pre-installed on ITOS causing problems with autobuilder

[From: Niels Breet]

Hi,

The offending package has been removed on request of Luciano Wolf from
indt. You shouldn't have dependecy problems anymore.

I guess we (as community) need to come up with a procedure to prevent
things like this from happening.

--
Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster

> Hi,
>
>
> I finally managed to build Gnumeric in the diablo autobuilder, but the
> package itself is not installable on Diablo because the autobuilder picked
> up the latest version of libglade2-dev from the extras(-devel) repository
> (version 1:2.6.2-1indt1). This causes a dependency on
> libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.6.2-1indt1) in the binary package.
>
> The package that presumably will be used for updating the tablets to the
> next ITOS version, osso-software-version-rx[34]4 depends on fixed versions
> of all pre-installed libraries, in this case libglade2-0
> (=1:2.4.0-1osso2).
>
>
> The application-manager now of course refuses to install the gnumeric
> package because this would mean that libglade2-0 would have to be updated,
> this itself would at least work in red-pill-mode, but the next step is
> that updating libglade2-0 would implicitly cause the removal of
> osso-software-version-rx[34]4, which is not supported by the application
> manager and would be most likely a very, very bad idea as it would break
> updates to the next ITOS.
>
> So what can be done to fix this situation!?
>
>
> The only idea i have is to remove all libraries and packages whose
> installation conflicts with osso-software-version-rx[34]4 from
> (diablo)-extras(-devel) and reject further uploads of such packages
> before they get into extras-devel and cause such breakage.
>
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
> btw: Do not get me wrong, i generally like the autobuilder and the
> concept of source-only uploads, it is working mostly well, but it has a few
> rough edges. ;-)
>
> (Being able to at least upload binary packages to diablo-extras-devel
> would also help a lot in this case.)
>
> --
> Thomas Schmidt, Debian VDR Team
> http://pkg-vdr-dvb.alioth.debian.org/
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