[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#832485: task-xfce-desktop: uninstallable on kfreebsd due to dependency on light-locker

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri Feb 10 13:33:10 UTC 2017


On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 14:21 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> writes:
> > Adding debian-bsd@ and pkg-xfce-devel@ to the loop:
> > 
> > Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> (2016-07-26):
> > > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > > Version: 3.35
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > Hi!
> > > I'm afraid that the xfce task can't be currently installed on kfreebsd. 
> > > This is especially nasty as xfce is the default DE on that arch.
> > > 
> > > The reason is that it depends on light-locker, which is Linux only.
> > > A possible solution is to change that dependency to:
> > >     Depends: light-locker|xscreensaver
> > > which would have the extra benefit of kind of alleviating #827562,
> > > with light-locker as the first alternative per the XFCE's team wishes.
> > > If you think that's a bad idea, the dependency could be arch specific.
> 
> FWIW kfreebsd support in lightlocker seems to really be trivial:

I definitely can add something like that, but did you have a chance to do an
actual test on kFreebSD?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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