What's wrong with meta-gnome2 ?

Olivier Berger olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu
Mon Jun 22 07:11:45 UTC 2009


Le lundi 22 juin 2009 à 03:51 +0200, Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> Aaron M. Ucko <ucko at debian.org> (21/06/2009):
> > [Copying the original poster because I'm not certain he's subscribed;
> > apologies for any resulting duplication.]
> 
> [AFAICT, he is, since he replied in some threads previously. ;)]

Sure am I (on d-d at l.d.o).

> > I agree that this message is not as clear as it could be.  In
> > practice, I believe the reason for the delay is that
> > gnome-desktop-environment has recently gained a conflict against
> > gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs, which is however still a dependency of several
> > packages.  Not all of these are necessarily problematic, but one
> > certainly is: gnome-dbg (which also comes from meta-gnome2) depends on
> > gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-dbg (from gst-plugins-base0.10), which
> > historically depended on gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs.  Version 0.10.23-3
> > has downgraded that to a suggestion, but only showed up as a
> > low-priority upload on June 17, so as things stand I wouldn't expect
> > the new meta-gnome2 to hit testing until at least the 27th.
> > 
> > See also http://bugs.debian.org/532469 .
> 
> Following Joss's mail to -release@, the following answer came:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/06/msg00216.html
> 

OK... so, how comes these dependencies aren't reflected in
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=gnome-desktop-environment;expand=1 ?

Bug ?

Thanks for your replies.

Best regards,
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