Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I find it very strange that a terminal application needs gnome-shell. There are dozens of terminal applications, and so far they seem to manage without dragging their own desktop environment of choice with them. Which makes me wonder: Does gnome-terminal actually work without gnome-shell? I

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 15:43, Robert Millan wrote: > I find it very strange that a terminal application needs gnome-shell. Stranger still that it is a *build* dependency; here's what happens without it: > checking whether to build the gnome-shell search provider... yes > checking for > /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On 31/05/14 17:51, Andreas Henriksson wrote: Maybe you should try to spend 2 seconds on trying to figure it out (ie. by searching the package changelog) before posting in the future. Why? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
Please accept my apologies. Apparently my previous mail wasn't clear enough for everyone. So please allow me to ellaborate: The text had a statement and some questions. One can tell them appart because questions end with a '?' sign, and statements don't. The questions are what I'd really like to

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Robert Millan! On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 03:43:18PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > I find it very strange that a terminal application needs gnome-shell. [...] Maybe you should try to spend 2 seconds on trying to figure it out (ie. by searching the package changelog) before posting

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Pino Toscano
tag 749888 + patch thanks Hi, On 2014-05-31 15:43, Robert Millan wrote: Which makes me wonder: Does gnome-terminal actually work without gnome-shell? It seems (just looking at the sources, I'm not a GNOME guy) gnome-shell is needed to integrate gnome-terminal as search provider for gnome-shel

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Robert Millan (2014-05-31): > I find it very strange that a terminal application needs gnome-shell. There > are > dozens of terminal applications, and so far they seem to manage without > dragging > their own desktop environment of choice with them. > > Which makes me wonder: Does gnome-termina

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On 31/05/14 18:22, Pino Toscano wrote: Attached a first version of patch for it; the changes to control.in and rules should be fine, while most probably the .install files could need few tricks (since gnome-terminal-search-provider.ini is not installed). GNOME team: if you could help on this, tha

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On 31/05/14 18:40, Cyril Brulebois wrote: IMVHO -release@ doesn't need to know about what happens to every single package. Feel free to keep that kind of Q & A between maintainers and porters. I was under the impression that -release was overseeing the QA requirements for Jessie are being satis

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-06-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 18:50:22 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On 31/05/14 18:40, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >IMVHO -release@ doesn't need to know about what happens to every single > >package. Feel free to keep that kind of Q & A between maintainers and > >porters. > > I was under the impression t

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-06-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 15:43, Robert Millan wrote: > I find it very strange that a terminal application needs gnome-shell. There > are > dozens of terminal applications, and so far they seem to manage without > dragging > their own desktop environment of choice with them. FWIW I just noticed there isn't an install-

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-06-02 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 12:50:06PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: [... random ramblings removed ...] > I'm assuming gnome-terminal will still run okay, or otherwise some > Linux user can follow up on this. [...] Please stop making assuptions. Instead, again, please take 2 seconds to try to look

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-06-02 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Andreas, Seems I need to rephrase. The kfreebsd-specific problem has been addressed. Any other problem with gnome-terminal, I don't have patience/motivation to pursue right now, due in part to: Point 1: On 02/06/14 13:13, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 12:50:06PM +0100, St

Re: gnome-terminal: FTBFS on kfreebsd & hurd archs

2014-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On 02/06/14 14:13, Andreas Henriksson wrote: You'd find that the default configuration is unusable under non-GNOME (and thus now for all hurd and kfreebsd users). We can't ship unusable software in Jessie. As per -release mandate kfreebsd-* is no exception anymore. It's already been stablished