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gnome2 transition comments (and my misunderstanding) (repeated?)



http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2003/debian-gtk-gnome-200306/msg00173.html
and the resulting thread provide a better insight than this message.

>From various sources listed below, I was under the impression that gnome2
is "almost in testing". If meta-gnome-2 is made not to depend on 11
packages then "gnome2" can enter testing. That being said, it seems some
of those 11 packages are rather important. Which ones are essential to
gnome2? I would guess control-centre, gnome-applets, gnome-terminal,
natilus, natilus-media and gnome-media. I don't know whether it's worth or
appropriate to suggest dropping any dependencies.

I see many of the bugs are dependency related and recent. I also see that
there seems to be some problems making packages that will
maybe-successful(ly) build on m68k. Again openldap2 seems to have popped
in here, it will likely be fixed after it passes through the new queue.

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=meta-gnome2 says:
- meta-gnome2 has unsatisfiable dependencies: gnome needs gnucash on
  alpha, gnome-core ... more gnome-core needs...
- meta-gnome2 is waiting for gnumeric, abiword, control-center,
  gnome-applets, gnome-terminal, nautilus, nautilus-media, gnome-media,
  gnucash, balsa, evolution

http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html says:
apt-get install gnome
or
apt-get install gnome-core

http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-core.html says gnome-core (1.4.2-1)
is in testing.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meta-gnome2.html says:
36 days old (needed 10 days)
gnome/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: gnucash
gnome-core/hppa unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media
gnome/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: gnucash
gnome-core/m68k unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media
gnome/mips unsatisfiable Depends: epiphany-browser | galeon
gnome-core/mips unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media
gnome/mipsel unsatisfiable Depends: epiphany-browser | galeon
gnome-core/mipsel unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media
gnome-core/s390 unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media
Valid candidate
Invalidated by dependency
Not considered
Depends: meta-gnome2 gnumeric (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 abiword (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 control-center (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 gnome-applets (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 gnome-terminal (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 nautilus (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 nautilus-media (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 gnome-media (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 gnucash (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 balsa (not considered)
Depends: meta-gnome2 evolution (not considered)

Colin Watson wrote in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200306/msg00026.html
control-center:
    * alpha: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, ppxp-applet, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * arm: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * hppa: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * i386: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * ia64: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * m68k: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * mips: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * mipsel: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * powerpc: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * s390: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    * sparc: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome
    [gnome-pilot: => pilot-link, m68k]
    [gnome-pilot-conduits: => gnome-pilot, => pilot-link]
    [gnome-pim: => pilot-link]
    [pilot-link: => perl => gdbm => openldap2]
    [ppxp-applet: build-deps on removed libpanel-applet-dev]
    [xalf: #183522, removal request #198790]
    [xscreensaver: #171772, #180063, #193581, #195740, m68k]

note: some of the above may have been fixed.

Some of my analysis of gnome2 related bugs:
Abiword
   * Missing builddep RC bug
   * depends aiksaurus
      - bad build RC bug (g++ linked and not gcc linked)
   * depends aiksaurusgtk
      - keyboard input RC bug
nautilus-media and gnome-media (gnome-media's in testing)
   * depends gst-plugins
      - missing config.mak two RC bugs
   * gnome-media also has a new depends/conflicts RC bug
gnome-cash
   * two RC bugs (one guile-1.6 related?)
   * depends guile-1.6
      - proposed patch(s) for RC bug(s)
balsa
   * depends openldap2
      - one RC bug nearly done? (see debian-release)
evolution
   * Arg, a whole heap of things listed at
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=evolution

     Drew Daniels




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