[maemo-developers] extras repository problems

[From: Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

Am Samstag 17 Januar 2009 schrieb Graham Cobb:
> I am sure Niels or Ed will take a look and respond soon (although it is a 
> weekend so maybe not).
It's not really urgent, i was just wondering ...

> Actually, the autobuilder doesn't check installation dependencies, only build 
It creates the dependencies. So everything required to build was definitely
available during the build process and thus everything to run it was also there.

> It is a really bad idea for osm2go to have an exact version dependency 
> (the "=" in the dependency) because it means it will be broken if someone 
But that's being added automatically by the build process. The question is: How
and why does this get added?

> dpkg -l libgoocanvas-common
> 
> will tell you if you have libgoocanvas-common installed, and which version
Thanks for that hint, i had some newer version from a different repository. 
Interesting that this didn't matter when i updated osm2go, just when i 
deinstall and re-install. Anyway, that hint was the solution. Thanks!

> > I really think the repositories need a maintainer. There are so
> > many broken things in them ...
> 
> The whole purpose of extras-devel is to allow things like this to be found, 
> before breaking extras.  That is why it contains broken things -- so they can 
> be found and repaired!
Yes, but a) some things are promoted to extras in this broken state and b)
there are so many packages in extras-devel that just sit there and collect 
dust. If your definition of extras-devel is right, then it should basically
be empty since broken things should be removed and working things
be promoted.

Thanks again,
  Till