[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#649034: xfce4-notifyd provides notification-daemon but other packages don't recognise this

cfr ReesCF at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 00:30:45 UTC 2011


Package: xfce4-notifyd
Version: 0.2.2-1
Severity: normal


xfce4-notifyd provides notification-daemon but other packages which
depend on notification-daemon don't accept xfce4-notifyd as sufficient.
For example, update-notifier, gnome-core etc.

So these packages have insisted on installing notification-daemon as
well and will not allow it to be uninstalled even though xfce4-notifyd
is installed. As a result, it seems to be a matter of chance which
notification daemon I get on start up. Sometimes I get one, sometimes
the other. I realise I could get rid of xfce4-notifyd but I much prefer
it. Also, everything worked perfectly with xfce4-notifyd until a few
days ago.

I am sorry but I do not understand Debian's packaging system well enough
to know whether this is really a bug in this package,
notification-daemon or the packages which depend in turn on
notification-daemon.

I thought maybe I needed to configure an alternative or something but
nothing seems to cover notification daemons and I can't find anything
through configure-debian either, although I'm sure there must be a way
if I look in just the right place...

The Debian changelog notes that xfce4-notifyd no longer conficts with
notification-daemon. Frankly, things worked a lot better when it did!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xfce4-notifyd depends on:
ii  libc6               2.13-21   
ii  libcairo2           1.10.2-6.1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.4.16-1  
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.98-1    
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.24.0-1  
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.28.8-1  
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.7-1  
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.29.4-2  
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.4-2 
ii  libxfce4ui-1-0      4.8.0-3   
ii  libxfce4util4       4.8.2-1   
ii  libxfconf-0-2       4.8.0-3   

Versions of packages xfce4-notifyd recommends:
ii  libnotify-bin  0.7.4-1

xfce4-notifyd suggests no packages.

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