Bug#681757: uninstallable meta-packages (prevents testing migration)

Touko Korpela touko.korpela at iki.fi
Mon Jul 16 14:50:06 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:34:06AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Source: meta-gnome3
> Version: 1:3.4+1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Due to additional dependencies that were added recently, the gnome meta
> packages are no longer installable on all architectures:
> 
> > gnome/armel unsatisfiable Depends: aisleriot (>= 3.4)
> > gnome/armhf unsatisfiable Depends: aisleriot (>= 3.4)
> > gnome/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: aisleriot (>= 3.4)
> 
> This is due to guile-2.0 failing to build on those architectures. [1]
> Afaics no bug has been filed for guile-2.0 about those build failures.

Did you ask porters for help? Arm userbase grows and things should work.
> 
> > gnome-core-devel/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: libseed-gtk3-dev (>= 3.2)
> > gnome-core-devel/mips unsatisfiable Depends: libseed-gtk3-dev (>= 3.2)
> 
> seed has been broken on those architectures for a while and I don't
> expect a fix any time soon. 

mips buildd ball had some issues with segfaults, it's now put offline
https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/07/msg00887.html
so you should ask for mips giveback, maybe ia64 works now too?

> 
> 
> At this point, I'd probably just arch-qualify those dependencies and
> exclude those archs.



More information about the pkg-gnome-maintainers mailing list