calctool package problem (cont'd)
[ I apologize for the new thread on the same subject but I had not
subscribed to the list so far ]
In answer Colin Watson message:
> > When dist-upgrading this morning, I noticed a package name
> > problem in testing. Two packages are named "calctool" : the one that
> > is maintained by Peter Crystal, and the other one that is maintained
> > by Sebastien Bacher. It seems that this last one comes from the
> > "gcalctool" source package, therefore, there may have been a problem
> > when building the binary package ("gcalctool" became "calctool").
> > Currently, apt-get is very confused with the situation : it wants to
> > upgrade Peter's calctool package with the new version of Sebastien's
> > one....
>
> Is this bad? Looking at the changelog, gcalctool supersedes calctool
> and is essentially just a new version of it. Sebastien has taken over
> maintenance.
Yes, I think it's bad because the "old" calctool was working very well,
and moreover, it was very light. I'm not using heavy things like gnome
or kde : my laptop has a 6 Gb hard disk....but if I want to upgrade the
"calctool" package (so, it means installing Sebastien's one), it happens
that I need to install 23 Mb of libraries:
The following extra packages will be installed:
bonobo-activation gconf2 gnome-mime-data libart-2.0-2
libbonobo-activation4
libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common
libcdparanoia0 libfam0c102 libgconf2-4 libglade2-0 libgnome2-0
libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0
libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common liblinc1
liborbit2
libscrollkeeper0 libxslt1 scrollkeeper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bonobo-activation calctool gconf2 gnome-mime-data libart-2.0-2
libbonobo-activation4 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0
libbonoboui2-common libcdparanoia0 libfam0c102 libgconf2-4 libglade2-0
libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common
libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common
liblinc1
liborbit2 libscrollkeeper0 libxslt1 scrollkeeper
0 packages upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 4789kB of archives. After unpacking 22.8MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Is this necessary to install all these things in order to have a
calculator ??? I have a lot of respect for Sebastien, and all the
others, who are doing a great job and spending a lot of time maintaining
the packages. However, debian has always been a great distribution
because users had choice (using or not using Gnome, KDE or whatever
else). This time, a choice has disappeared.
Cheers, Frédéric.
PS This probably means that I should maintain the "old calctool" package
myself....I'm thinking about it.
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