Bug#374618: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#374618: xfce4-panel: Unsatisfiable Depends on procps on hurd-i386

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

tag #374618 pending
thanks nice bot

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:45 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> Package: xfce4-panel
> Version: 4.2.3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> xfce4 is uninstallable (and partly unbuildable due to uninstallable
> B-Ds) on hurd-i386 due to the Depends: on procps for many packages.
> 
> This is of course because you use pkill in postinst to send SIGUSR1 to
> xfce-mcs-manager.  The problem is that pkill is not available on the
> Hurd.
> 
> In order to have a working XFCE4 on the Hurd (it's only desktop
> environment which really used work quite well on it), would it be
> possible to remove the procps dependency from the xfce4 packages or
> (alternatively) replace the pkill call with something involving ps, grep
> and kill and dropping it alltogether?
> 
> I'm filing this for xfce4-panel, but it applies to most other XFCE4
> packages as well, AFAICT.
> 

We have updated our postinst scripts to use only ps/grep/awk/kill so
xfce will be available on Hurd. Package will be uploaded soon.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez