Bug#511477: iceape: Shouldn't release with Lenny

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Jan 25 13:34:51 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:29:36AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > > > Two approaches to resolve this have been proposed: 
> > > > 
> > > >  As far as I know, there should be patches in Ubuntu to build some of
> > > >  the packages you listed against xulrunner 1.9; I guess that would be
> > > >  the best solution.  I'm not sure icedove / xulrunner 1.8 will be
> > > >  maintainable for a long period.
> > > > 
> > > >  I also wonder whether mozilla-bonobo can be dropped.
> > > 
> > > After a bit more investigation it appears as if solution (2)
> > > won't work, since iceape-dev itself depends on iceape-browser.
> > 
> > Do you mean depends as in debian/control, or as in dropping the
> > package dependency doesn't work?
> 
> As in debian/control:
> 
> Package: iceape-dev
> [..]
> Depends: iceape-browser (>= 1.1.14), iceape-browser (<= 1.1.14-1.1~), iceape-dev-bin (>= 1.1.14), libnspr4-dev
> 
> Or is the dependency not technically needed for the use cases, which
> remain in the archive?

Most of the rdeps should only need headers and possibly a .a provided in
the -dev-bin package. There shouldn't be anything needing iceape-browser
files, but that's only an assumption. That's why I asked to check
whether they build without iceape-browser installed.

Mike





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