[maemo-developers] Diablo Libssl broken in extras-devel

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 24:58, Graham Cobb wrote:

> Jeremiah,
>
> I haven't checked this out myself but I **think** what Till is  
> seeing is that
> the autobuilder builds his app with the libssl package from extras- 
> devel and
> ends up with a versioned dependency on that specific version of  
> libssl.
> However, the extras-devel version of libssl cannot be installed  
> because it
> conflicts with a Nokia package (presumably it is one of the  
> libraries Nokia
> installs and does not allow to be replaced).
>
> If this guess is right then the new version of libssl should be  
> removed from
> extras-devel as it can never be used by anyone.  But you might want  
> to check
> out who uploaded it to see if you can find out why.
>

Very interesting. I think you are right because someone asked my  
yesterday to remove libssl since the version they uploaded ddin't  
work. I imagine they uploaded libssl again since they need it as a  
dependency.

Ed and Niels: Shouldn't we disallow uploading of packages that are un- 
installable on the tablet?

> Graham
>
> P.S. The autobuilder certainly does use packages from extras-devel  
> (as well as
> the SDK) to satisfy dependencies.

I stand corrected.

Jeremiah