Hi, Symbol have moved from gnome-vfs towards bonobo. The appropriate conflict has been added to ensure that you can't end up without the symbols if you need them.
But this conflict causes a lot of complexity to compute the necessary build-deps. Of course, it will "just work" if the only versions available to the buildd satisfy the build-deps, and their deps and conflicts, but this is really problematic for: - experimental - backports - and perhaps if we don't notice that the default version is incompatible, but archive rebuilds before releases shoudl guard against this (But in the end, we will end up with more restrictive build-deps than what the sources truly permit.) I would like to complete the transition on the side of build-deps and deps as well, that is bump up build-deps and/or deps appropriately so that any version which satisfies the build-deps of a package is not discovered later on to conflict with another build-dep or a dep of a build-dep. An example of the problem is gedit, which build-depends on gnome-vfs2 >= 2.16, and libgnomeui >= 2.16. libgnomeui depends on libbonoboui >= 2.13, which depends on libbonobo >= 2.13. But gnome-vfs2 2.16 conflicts with libbonobo < 2.15. I currently see two ways to transition to a simpler situation, but other ways would be valuable of course: 1) transition each inter-dependency: bump up the rdeps on libgnomevfs2-dev and libbonobo2-dev to transitionned version; for example libbonoboui2-dev $someversion would depend on libbonobo2-dev >= 2.16, and libgnomeui-dev would depend on libbonoboui2-dev >= $someversion 2) add dependencies or build-dependencies on lower level libs in high level libs: gedit would build-depend on libbonobo2-dev >= 2.16 I don't like the second solution as it "leaks" low level libs deps to higher level stuff, and I don't like the former solution because it will bump a lot of inter-dependencies which are in the middle of the stack and will cause a lot of work. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Forget your stupid theme park! I'm gonna make my own! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the theme park!" -- Bender -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
