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Re: Analysis of the gnome3 transitions



Am 07.04.2011 00:50, schrieb Josselin Mouette:

> If you know of other libraries that will be involved, please speak up
> now. If you have read the whole mail, congratulations.

* network-manager 0.9

network-manager 0.8.4 is currently in unstable, 0.9 rcS in experimental.

GNOME 3 requires NM 0.9 (gnome-control-center 3.0 at least).

Fortunately the KDE plasma widget for NM 0.9 is getting into a usable shape.
What's still missing in plasma-widget-networkmanagement is support for migrating
0.8 settings to 0.9 [1]

Aside from that, we have a soname bump for libnm-glib and libnm-util, so rdeps
at least need a rebuild. I haven't made a test build of affected packages, but
can do so.

There is also a small change in the D-Bus API regarding offline/online network
status detection [2]


* tracker 0.10
libtracker-client-0.8 in unstable is used by
  - gtk+2.0 (via dlopen), nautilus (via dlopen)
  - bognor-regis, brasero, hornsey, totem-plugins

tracker-0.10 uses the library name libtracker-client-0.10, and the pkg-config
file was renamed too. So in most cases a sourceful upload is required.

I started filing bugs for that [3].

totem 3.0 (exp) is already updated to use tracker 0.10 (using libtracker-sparql)
nautilus 3.0 (exp) already supports tracker 0.10 (using libtracker-sparql)
gtk+2.0 can be patched to support both tracker-0.8 and tracker-0.10


* poppler 0.16

To update evince, we need a newer poppler (>= 0.15).
I've been working on that with Pino and I expect him to send a separate email to
debian-release about this.
The current progress is tracked via [4] and we managed to make all but 3
packages binNMUable (xpdf, python-poppler, poppler-sharp).
I think we should start the poppler transition as soon as possible, as other
transitions will depend on it (e.g. evince, tracker-0.10)



Michael



[1] http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ApiSimplify
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/572#comment:50
[3]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=biebl@debian.org;tag=tracker-0.10
[4]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=toscano.pino@tiscali.it;tag=poppler-0.16
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