Bug#344524: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#344524: xfce4-terminal: Depends on libexo-0.3-0 which is not in Debian

[Simon Huggins]

Salut Andreas!

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:55:51PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 23.12.05 16:02:53, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > severity 344524 normal
> > thanks
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:44:28PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > xfce4-terminal depends on libexo-0.3-0, which is the wrong package name
> > > for libexo in Debian. The package is named libexo0.3-0 (without the 2nd
> > > dash). Thus xfce4-terminal is uninstallable.
> > The new exo package is in NEW.
> > Once it trickles through NEW it'll all work out.
> Hmm, that's about the 3rd time I do such a report (i.e. a package
> depending on another that lies in NEW is uninstallable), so is there a
> way for a non-DD to check the NEW-queue? I already check incoming.d.o in
> these cases, but if a package is not there yet I currently don't know
> where to look at...

Are you a buildd admin or some such?  I would leave such reports to
them.

But in this case you could have checked the changelog to see that this
change was intentional in these cases.

The NEW queue is accessible via: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Simon.

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