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On 3/8/11 6:09 PM, Max Horn wrote:
> 
> Am 08.03.2011 um 22:45 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>> I'm going to deactivate gmime24 for 64-bit,
>>>
>>> I'd really prefer if we removed the mono bindings from gmime24 instead and 
>>> put these into a separate gmime24-mono package.
>>>
>>>> and the pan maintainer
>>>> (cc'ed) needs to do something for the unstable tree version of the
>>>> package as well.
>>>
>>> The only thing I could do would be to disable pan for the 64bit tree, too. 
>>> Not nice.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> Max
> 
>> It appears that gmime24 has always had mono as a dependency, so clearly
>> there has been a breakdown in testing these packages.
> 
> If you mean by "breakdown" that I overlooked that gmime24 drags in mono which 
> does not support 64bit and hence neglected to mark the new pan.info from 
> today as "32 bit only" -- then yes, we had a breakdown :) (and similarly, 
> gmime24 should have been marked as 32-bit only...).

Yes, exactly.  gmime24 should have been marked as 32-bit only.

> 
> Of course, it would be nice if mono supported 64bit, but regardless of this, 
> I'd really prefer to not have mono as a dependency for pan (or gmime24, and 
> anything else depending on it). It's a very big packages with dozens of 
> dependencies, after all, and so should be avoided.
> 
> I am not sure whether Jack has any plans to work on this (nor, for that 
> matter, whether Jack has any plans to fix any of his packages... ;-) ), but 
> I'll look into splitting the gmime24.info, moving the mono stuff into a 
> separate package; alternatively, we could make gmime24-nomono, I guess, and 
> let stuff depend on "gmime24 | gmime24-nomon", but I'd really prefer if the 
> mono bindings were in a separate package.
> 
> Bye,
> Max

I'm going to reactivate the package with the mono and gtk-sharp bindings
disabled.  Beyond fixing a user's issue with the distro, I have no
interest in mucking around with this further.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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