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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 21:28 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : 
> Well, the use case for this is libcanberra-gtk3-module, which depends on
> gconf2 but not on libgconf2-4.  Maybe this is a spurious dependency on
> gconf2, I didn't question it too closely.

Ah, I see. It does that to change the gnome-settings-daemon
configuration. However g-s-d uses GSettings now, not GConf, so this file
doesn’t achieve anything anymore. There’s a configuration for g-s-d 3.0
too, so you can just drop the schemas file and add a Breaks: g-s-d <<
3.0. This should be enough to drop your dependency before we update
gconf2.

> > The solution will probably be to statically link the library into the
> > daemon. If you have any other ideas, please share.
> 
> Yeah, I don't have any better ideas; that's basically why I haven't proposed
> a patch to make the library coinstallable, because I didn't see a good way
> to do it.

I think I’ll do that as soon as I fine a pair of hours to work on it.

Cheers,
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