Re: Pidgin with version patch

[Marko Randjelovic <marel@sbb.rs>]

Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  Just gave it a quick try - removing the libsilc-dev build-dependency
> works. Propably SILC should get removed from all package descriptions
> too so that people don't think this pidgin backport would support it.
> 
>  Hope that helps,
> Rhonda
> 

I tried to build this 2.4.3, but it requires libnss3-dev >= 3.11.7-1. And look this:



main:~/install/pidgin-2.4.3-testing# apt-get -t testing install libnss3-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libnss3-dev: Depends: libnss3-1d (> 3.12.0~rc3-1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libnss3-1d (< 3.12.0~rc3-3.1~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
main:~/install/pidgin-2.4.3-testing# apt-get install libnss3-1d
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libnss3-1d: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 is to be installed
              Depends: libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9) but 3.3.8-1.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages




So, it is not possible to build these packages unless you upgrade your libc to 2.7. I am not very experienced in this
work, but I see some ${shlibs:Depends} stuff and so on, so I am afraid people would have to upgrade libc in order to use
this build of pidgin. It is not the point of backports.

I don't think it is very important if we have pidgin 2.3 or 2.4. But it is important that it can connect to ICQ. There
are certainly people that are frustrated and that are still hoping that will appear on backports. So, I propose we
upload this 2.3 version with ICQ version patch as soon as posible.