Re: galeon..
On 28 Jan 01 18:49:02 GMT, Rob VanFleet <rvf@linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu> wrote:
>The people you really need to talk to are the galeon developers (or at
>least whoever packages the deb's for it). If they're packaging a deb
>for Potato and making it depend on X4, it seems they are obviously out
>of touch with Debian.
The main galeon packager has to rely on other people to do potato
packages, and in this case didn't know that the latest package was
built against X4 until after the fact.
As it stands now, galeon cannot be built on a pure potato system. It
uses features of the Gnome libraries that aren't available in the
increasingly obsolete version released with potato. It does build on a
potato system updated with the current Helix/Ximian Gnome packages. It
also depends on mozilla 0.7 or a recent nightly rather than the M18 in
potato. Building it requires xml-i18n-tools which isn't officially
packaged even in sid, and building the docs requires gnome-doc-tools
which is also not officially packaged.
In the near future packages should be available for potato systems
updated with Helix/Ximian Gnome and an unofficial mozilla 0.7.
Depending on how difficult it is to do, packages built against a "pure"
potato system and mozilla 0.7 *may* become available later.
Frank
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