On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:39:00AM +0100, Mich?le Garoche wrote: > Le 24 f?vr. 2006 ? 06:26, Daniel Johnson a ?crit : > > > >Anyway, the brand new libgnomeprint2.2-2.12.1-1001 package requires > >a BuildDepends on bison. It fails to build with the system's > >version. I assume the same is also true in the other trees. > > > >What's the correct procedure for these things? If a package has a > >real maintainer I'll email them, obviously. But for a package like > >this, should I just go ahead and make the change? What's the best > >way to be useful? Aside from assuming the role of fink-gnome-core > >of course. ;-) > From my experience with gnome: > > 1 - libgnomeprintui2 should be at an equivalent version number
libgnomeprintui uses libgnomeprint, not the other way around. But regardless, libgnomeprintui was also upgraded. > 2 - it has to be checked that all packages that uses lignomeprint2.2 > not only compile, but effectively work with the new version: > conglomerate, eog, evince, gal199, gal2.4, gedit, ggv, glade2, > gnumeric, gpdf, gthumb, gtksourceview, libgnomedb, librsvg2-mozilla, > librsvg2, gtk-sharp-monodoc, gtk-sharp, gtk-sharp2, gtksourceview- > sharp, gretl I tested that several applications that use it work: binaries compiled against the old versions runs fine when libs are upgraded, recompiling against new versions gave no errors, and the newly-compiled binaries run fine. The 2.10.x and 2.12.x series of the libs claim to be forward- and backward-compatible, with no change to any of the lib versioning values. > Maybe better put it in your experimental tree, announce it on the > devel list, then all people can test it (I can make it for > conglomerate, evince, gedit, ggv, glade2, gtksourceview, libgnomedb, > in 10.- 4 stable (then it's likely it works also in 10.4- > transitional, for 10.3; Daniel Macks can test them) which I use > either directly or within my own packages. Too late...it's already released:) dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
