Bug#401477: Missing build-dependency

[David Weinehall]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:17:52AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

I'm not building them for purposes of uploading them, just for testing
purposes, to find problems before the packages reaches unstable.


Regards: David
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