On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:28 -0700, Scott Webster wrote: > I noticed that 2.20 seems to have a bunch of dependency version bumps > (ie. dependencies with higher versions are required), at least in > debian (eg. libatk, libfontconfig, libglib, libgtksourceview, > libpython2.6). This prevents me from upgrading on my server. But it > seems to build from source and run fine on the same machine. I guess > the version changes were actually required and maybe parts of my 2.20 > won't work properly? But wouldn't the configure script detect this? The dependency versions of Debian binary packages are set at build time - usually to the versions used to build the package. As new Debian binary packages are built for Debian unstable, the versions in unstable at the moment of building the package end up in the binary package's dependency list. (There are exceptions to this rule, but they are unfortunately not particularly widespread yet.) Usually, that is not a big problem, as all these packages will migrate to Debian testing together in around the same time. And later, after some unknown time ;-), all of this is going to be released as Debian stable altogether.
As 2.20 is, together with all its dependencies, in testing already, I assume, you run a Debian stable server? Or you do not want to update anything else than gwyddion on a Debian testing server? In the first case, you may want to try the backport of gwyddion 2.20 to Debian stable which you can find on www.beathovn.de - please note, that this is not officially supported or anything - I just do it when I come around to do it. But feedback is of course all the time most welcome! In the second case, I'm afraid, I can't help you much. You can try to install the above backported packages - they should work on a Debian testing installation, too. Or you "backport"(simply rebuild) the package in a testing environment yourself (if that is the option of your choice I may be able to help you find some hints on how to do that efficiently). Or you continue to use your home-built gwyddion on that machine. hmm, was there somewhere some solution to your problem in that long mail? Best Regards, Jan (Debian Maintainer of gwyddion) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Gwyddion-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwyddion-users
