[debian-x CCed] On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:02:19AM -0500, Josh Metzler wrote: > Sorry if this has already been communicated to you by someone else. > > It looks like xfree86 4.3 needs to be handbuilt, and that it is fairly > urgent that this happen. Until it is built, no packages Build-Depending > on xlibs-dev can build (including xfree86 itself, which is why it needs > hand-built). > > Here is the problem: xlibs-dev was split into seperate libs, is now a > virtual package, No it isn't, or you don't know what a virtual package is. xlibs-dev is perfectly real, even in 4.3.0-2. It ships a copyright file and everything. It just happens to be devoid of non-Policy-required content. Please review its package description: Description: X Window System client library development files pseudopackage This package smooths upgrades from Debian 3.0 by depending on libice-dev, libsm-dev, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxi-dev, libxmu-dev, libxmuu-dev, libxp-dev, libxpm-dev, libxrandr-dev, libxt-dev, libxtrap-dev, libxtst-dev, libxv-dev, pm-dev, x-dev, and xlibs-static-dev. This pseudopackage is only depended upon by packages that haven't yet corrected their dependencies to reflect the new library arrangement. > and is also now Architecture: all. So, as soon as it was built on one > arch, xlibs-dev 4.3.0-2 replaced xlibs-dev 4.2.1-16 on all arches in > unstable. It cannot be installed, though, until the libs it depends > on are built on each architecture. These libs are built as part of > the xfree86 source package, which cannot be built because it depends > on xlibs-dev which is uninstallable until they are built. :( This is a drawback of the buildds opportunistically grabbing stuff out of queue/accepted. It might also be a drawback to the practice of permitting architecture-all packages propagate into an architecture's view of the distribution (e.g., unstable) when their binary-specific counterparts from the same source package have not. Whether the instant problem is a corner case, or whether the buildd admins and/or archive maintainers should review the above practices is a bit beyond the scope of the "getting xfree86 built" problem, and is probably more germane to debian-devel. xfree86 4.3.0-2 builds just fine in a clean sid chroot with xlibs-dev 4.2.1-16. Many people can attest to this. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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