Bug#652861: gconf: Please mark gconf2 Multi-Arch: foreign

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 23 décembre 2011 à 15:41 +0200, Riku Voipio a écrit : 
> Attached is my full multiarch conversion. I didn't add any libconf2-4 -> gconf2
> dependency what was discussed on the previous mail. I don't see why it would any
> more neccesary in multiarch scenario than in regular scenario. 

Have you actually looked at how gconf2 is packaged, or just tried to
apply automatic recipes without thinking about what they imply?

> Furthermore, we
> don't usually do any library -> server dependencies (see dbus, mysql and so on).
> A recommends at most would be warranted.

Of course, why would you listen to the maintainer? When I say we need to
ship the daemon with the library, of course it has to be because of a
lunatic fantasy, not because the library does not work AT ALL without
the daemon installed too.

If you have tried to understand what the package does instead of
applying your small recipe, you would have noticed the daemon is already
shipped in the same package as the library. You would also have thought
of adding Breaks: gnome-session (<< 3.0) because it used to call one of
these binaries directly.

> These patches were done to allow cross compile packages the build-depend
> directly on libgconf2-dev or inderectly to libconf2-4. 
> 
> The org.gnome.GConf.service file was moved from gconf2-common to gconf2, since the
> contents of the file are not arch-independent. Other than that, quite straightforward
> conversion. But also not really tested in non-crosscompiling scenarios.

O RLY? Not tested at all, you must mean. By moving this file away, you
have ensured the package stopped working at all in many cases.
Congratulations.

Such attempts are not helping at all. When I say multiarchifying gconf2
is complicated, after having already converted several non-trivial
packages like gvfs, it is because it IS complicated. Not because I’m
looking for Riku smarty-pants to boss me around.

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