Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Stephen Crowley wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It is true that the GNOME situation on Debian isn't favorable, to no fault
> > > of Debian's IMHO. However, I would like to suggest that the
> > > Debian developers that maintain GNOME related packages coordinate their
> > > efforts, if this isn't already being done. For example, I am maintaining
> > > the imlib packages which are currently having problems. Rather than
> > > upload the packages and break other packages I have asked others to test
> > > them. Perhaps a Debian GNOME team would be good to have. Does such an
> > > entity already exist? Any comments?
> >
> > I think this is a very good idea and something we need to look into doing.
>
> This would be nice. However, there is still one flaw.
>
> The upstream gnome developers aren't bumping the soname. How else do you
> explain how dpkg can say all dependencies are filled, yet a gnome app
> segfaults?
Because there's an overwrite with libgnomeui.so.0 (IIRC).. Other than
that, they *are* bumping the soname. Look at libgnome31, for exmaple :)
Jules
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