What's wrong with meta-gnome2 ?

[Aaron M. Ucko]

[Copying the original poster because I'm not certain he's subscribed;
apologies for any resulting duplication.]

Olivier Berger <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu> writes:

>         Updating meta-gnome2 makes 1 non-depending packages uninstallable on i386: gnome-desktop-environment 
>                         binary package gnome-desktop-environment is part of source package meta-gnome2 (explained above)

I agree that this message is not as clear as it could be.  In
practice, I believe the reason for the delay is that
gnome-desktop-environment has recently gained a conflict against
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs, which is however still a dependency of several
packages.  Not all of these are necessarily problematic, but one
certainly is: gnome-dbg (which also comes from meta-gnome2) depends on
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-dbg (from gst-plugins-base0.10), which
historically depended on gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs.  Version 0.10.23-3
has downgraded that to a suggestion, but only showed up as a
low-priority upload on June 17, so as things stand I wouldn't expect
the new meta-gnome2 to hit testing until at least the 27th.

See also http://bugs.debian.org/532469 .

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