Re: empathy backports

[Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:24:32 +0100
Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:

> Andres Salomon schrieb am Freitag, den 30. Oktober 2009:
> 
> > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:59:34 -0400
> > Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm uploading a backport of empathy.  It's very much a
> > > work-in-progress; there are newer version of dependencies that
> > > aren't in testing yet.  I plan to update the bpo as they migrate
> > > to testing, up until the point at which empathy 2.28 (and any
> > > deps necessary to make voice and video calls) is backported.
> > > 
> > 
> > Packages are still stuck in NEW; they can be found here as well:
> > http://lunge.mit.edu/~dilinger/bpo/empathy/
> > 
> > Note that telepathy-haze is broken w/ the version of libpurple
> > that's in lenny (see #553085).  I'll fix this w/ a new tp-haze
> > backport once more of the empathy-related packages escape NEW.  In
> > the meantime, installing the version of libpurple0 from
> > backports.org (rather than the version that's in lenny) will allow
> > it to work.
> And I'm not sure if I will accept them. There are too many more or
> less critical libs inside. Maybe I have time to test them all at the
> weekend. 
> 
> Alex

Why not?  They're required for telepathy/empathy voip stuff, and
they're not forced upon other bpo users unless they want empathy.

I built stuff against lenny versions of everything unless there was a
hard version requirement..