Re: empathy backports
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:28:26 +0100
Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:
> Andres Salomon schrieb am Dienstag, den 03. November 2009:
>
> > 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.
> > >
> >
> > I just had to explain to someone that they couldn't use these
> > packages because there were only .debs for i386 at the url
> > above. :(
> >
> > If bpo has a policy of not accepting certain packages, it
> > would be good to have that policy published on the backports.org
> > webpage so that contributors don't waste their time backporting
> > stuff that's never to be accepted.
> I do of course some quality checks and if I am not sure if a backport
> is working properly I can reject them. That should be clear.
Sure, but it wasn't clear if there were other reasons.
>
> You backported some critical packages like glib and dbus where I am
> not sure if they are really needed and that they don't produce any
> trouble.
>
> Did you tested your backports on lenny boxes with gnome and kde? Are
I've tested with gnome, but not kde.
> normal stable packages getting uninstallable or do they have to be
> removed before installing the empathy backports?
I haven't run into any trouble with that yet, other than gstreamer
packages causing a conflict w/ having empathy installed (which I've
since fixed). Obviously, if anyone notices anything, I can take a
look; but with 1500+ gtk packages on a system, I can't test every
permutation.
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