Follow-up on Bug#330098

2005-10-27 Thread Seb

Hello,



Bug #330098 has already filed the problem I'm running into, but I thought
it would be worthwhile to let you know in what way it matters to me.

I use Mailman for the mailing lists on my company's server; they are
tremendously important tools for us as you can guess. Since Mailman's
frontend to the archives is dumb to the point that it makes them useless,
I use Lurker as a better tool. Here is how Lurker displays
debian-user-french's archives for instance:

http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/list/debian-user-french.en.html

So Lurker is now a very important tool, too.
But keep in mind that it is meant to be used on a server, mostly. In my
case, as in many, this means as little services as possible in order to
protect us from security bugs and make the best out of the hardware.
In particular, no KDE, no X11.

It seems odd that mimelib should link against kdelibs, I wonder how they
got entangled this way round. As things stand, installing Lurker on Etch
requires a whole bunch of KDE stuff now, which is really impractical in a
server environment -- and Lurker definitely corresponds to a server.


So I hope a way can be found in the coming weeks to make mimelib
independant again from kdelibs; this is the situation in Sarge.
Please feel free to forward any part of this email to upstream if it can
help.

Thanks for your time and effort.


Best regards,
Sébastien Desreux.


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Re: Follow-up on Bug#330098

2005-10-27 Thread Christopher Martin
On October 27, 2005 08:45, Seb wrote:
 So I hope a way can be found in the coming weeks to make mimelib
 independant again from kdelibs; this is the situation in Sarge.
 Please feel free to forward any part of this email to upstream if it can
 help.

In the kdelibs package in experimental, there is 
now /usr/lib/libkdefakes_pic.a, which will allow mimelib to be linked 
statically to libkdefakes, thus removing its run-time dependency on 
kdelibs4c2. Then you will be able to use mimelib without pulling in 
kdelibs. Unfortunately, to speed up some transitions from Sid -- Etch, 
we're making only emergency uploads to Sid, so it might be a little while 
before this problem is solved in Sid.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin


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