Bug#663879: Any update on this ?

[shirish शिरीष]

in-line :-

2012/3/21 Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk>:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:33:13 +0530
> shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For some reason your response on the bug didn't make the way to my
>> inbox hence subscribed to the bug. Thought that who starts the bug is
>> subscribed already. Oh well!
>
> I've had that happen to me a few times too. But subscribing might mean
> you end up with 2 copies (3 including the Cc!).

Yup, but so far getting only one :)

>> When I tried doing upgrading I understood that two more libraries
>> depend on it libglib2.0-bin and libglib2.0-dev .
>>
>> When I looked at why libglib2.0-dev was needed it points to something
>> else but don't wanna go there now.
>>
>> $ aptitude why libglib2.0-dev
>> i   libpulse-dev Depends libglib2.0-dev
>
> That means you've also got libpulse-dev installed. Have you compiled
> something that involves audio? You could see what `aptitude why` says
> about that.

$ aptitude why libpulse-dev
i   libsmpeg-dev  Depends libsdl1.2-dev (>= 1.2.2-3.3)
i A libsdl1.2-dev Depends libpulse-dev

Its being installed as part of libsdl1.2-dev and I need it. I
routinely compile foss games which are not in Debian, as of yet. See
[1] [2] for examples.

>> Anyways while I can install the three libraries together dunno if
>> there are any other implications. They seem to be able to install
>> okish if I wanna go that route (as in aptitude does not complain).
>>
>>  $ sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-0=2.31.22-1
>> libglib2.0-bin=2.31.22-1 libglib2.0-dev=2.31.22-1
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev
>> 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> That's good, it isn't forcing anything else to be upgraded. I haven't
> had any problems since I upgraded glib.
>
> However, this version alone won't remove all the warnings, and it's the
> fact that there are warnings at all that make it a nuisance, not whether
> there are three or four instead of only one. But recompiling to use the
> patch takes a loooooooong time and requires a lot of other dev packages.
> I could upload the binary package I made too if amd64 is any use to you.

If it comes via the debian-experimental then would be good, other than
that I would just install this one.

1. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/rpgs-development-and-bugs/
2. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/hale-rpg/

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