Bug#401477: Missing build-dependency

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 04 décembre 2006 à 01:27 +0100, David Weinehall a écrit :
> > I've just built gnome-desktop without having libxcb-xlib0-dev installed.
> > Furthermore, this package doesn't even exist.
> 
> Oh?!  X in experimental begs to differ at least.  I guess some x library
> misses a dependency then.
> 
> libxcb-xlib0-dev:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 0.9.92-1
>   Version table:
>      0.9.92-1 0
>           1 http://ftp.se.debian.org experimental/main Packages
> 
> > Are you sure you haven't installed or rebuilt something locally against
> > XCB libraries?
> 
> libx11-6 from experimental depends on libxcb-xlib0, so perhaps
> libx11-dev needs this dependency?

Please don't built GNOME packages in experimental against experimental
X11 libraries! This is going to tangle GNOME 2.16 with these
experimental X11 libraries. You should use as much as possible from
unstable when building experimental packages.

Thanks,
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Josselin Mouette                /\./\

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