[maemo-developers] extras repository problems

[From: Antonio Aloisio]

Hi,
I had the same problem with Qt.
The building process finished successfully  at 5 o'clock and it's still not
available on extra-devel.

Antonio

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Graham Cobb
<g+770 at cobb.uk.net<g%2B770 at cobb.uk.net>
> wrote:

> On Saturday 17 January 2009 09:40:11 Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> > a) i uploaded osm2go-0.6-9 half a day ago and the logs show
> > the autobuild was successful:
> >   https://garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/osm2go_0.6-9/
> > But the new version just doesn't show up in extras-devel.
> > How comes?
>
> I am sure Niels or Ed will take a look and respond soon (although it is a
> weekend so maybe not).
>
> > b) The previous version also isn't installable anymore since
> > it claims to have a mssing dependency on libgoocanvas-common
> > (= 0.9-2maemo0). How do these things happen? Since this
> > version also was built using the autobuilder, the build mechanism
> > sure had access to all these parts. How comes they are gone
> > now?
>
> Actually, the autobuilder doesn't check installation dependencies, only
> build
> dependencies (this is necessary in case the dependencies are circular).
>  That
> is why, after building, it is important to test it can be installed.  There
> has been discussion of the promotion interface checking installation
> dependencies but, as far as I know, it doesn't do that yet.
>
> 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
> updates a new version of libgoocanvas-common.  However, 0.9-2maemo0 seems
> to
> be the current version in extras-devel so the problem must either be that
> you
> have some other version of libgoocanvas-common installed on your tablet or
> it
> cannot be installed for some reason.  You will need to use apt and dpkg
> from
> the command line to see why:
>
> dpkg -l libgoocanvas-common
>
> will tell you if you have libgoocanvas-common installed, and which version
>
> apt-get install libgoocanvas-common=0.9-2maemo0
>
> will tell you why you can't install it.
>
> > 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!
>
> Graham
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