Bug#348525: control-center - FTBFS: cannot find -ldbus-1

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 31 janvier 2006 à 05:32 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > I think we can downgrade this bug to non-RC as the symptom shouldn't occur
> > anymore or is using a crummy version of libtool considered RC these days ? 
> 
> Well, in some cases it is: control-center is one of the packages affected by
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html> as it
> depends on libfreetype6 without a build-dependency, which probably means it
> doesn't use it.  Since we know at this point that libfreetype6 is going away
> in the etch time frame, it is RC for etch that gnome-control-center be built
> without a dependency on libfreetype6: either by using a newer libtool or
> -Wl,--as-needed to drop the dependency now, or by rebuilding against the new
> libfreetype when it's available.  I urge you not to wait for the latter.

Relibtoolising doesn't help because of pkg-config. In fact,
control-center's upstream already uses the Debian patched libtool.
Furthermore, --as-needed doesn't work because of libtool bug #347650.
I'm afraid we have to wait for the new libfreetype unless libtool is
fixed.

Regards,
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