Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Liam O'Toole skrev:
>> On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not
>>>> the case on Lenny:
>>>
>>> I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2
>>> 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be
>>> that swfdec was removed. The changelog[0] for meta-gnome2 says (among
>>> other things):
>>>
>>>
>>> * Drop swfdec-gnome.
>>> * Make gnome depend on mozilla-plugin-gnash so that there’s at least
>>> something for Flash websites.
>>>
>>
>> The changelog appears to refer to the gnome metapackage rather than
>> gnome-core.
>>
>
> The changelog refers to meta-gnome2, which is a source package from
> which the three binary packages gnome, gnome-core and
> gnome-desktop-environment (and some more packages) are built.
I was speaking specifically about this part: "Make gnome depend on
mozilla-plugin-gnash". I interpret that to mean the gnome metapackage
rather than the other, lesser, ones.
>
> Thus, the changelog holds for the source package, and I do not know how
> to see what change holds for which binary package. I do not even know if
> binary packages can have changelogs separate form their source packages.
As far as I can tell, no.
>
> The changelog quote was intended to answer the question why things are
> different in squeeze than in lenny.
Thanks for the information.
>
> Looking at the binary packages, I agree that the packages gnome-core and
> gnome-desktop environment do not depend on gnash, whereas gnome does
> (via the mozilla plugin).
That is consistent with my remarks above.
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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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