Regarding building boxes in debain

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi,

No need to mail individual developers.

On 04/22/2013 10:32 AM, Gursimran singh wrote:
> Hi developers,
> 
> I'm Gursimran. I'm beginner in debian and packaging. I was trying to build
> boxes in debain using jhbuild using
> jhbuild build gnome-boxes --nodeps
> 
> it reports the following errors in package gnome-themes-manager
> configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.15 gdk-2.0 >=
> 2.24.15) were not met:
> 
> Requested 'gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.15' but version of GTK+ is 2.24.10
> Requested 'gdk-2.0 >= 2.24.15' but version of GDK is 2.24.10
> 
> In debian we currently have 2.24.10 package but latest is 2.24.17 in
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.24/
> 
> Why is this. How should I manage this error
> 
> Futher when I use jhbuild build gnome-boxes
> it reports
> No matching system package installed:
>      python2-devel (python.pc, required=2.5)
> 
> There is no package pyhton2.5-dev. python-dev doesnt help as well.
> Please help

Sounds like you're building boxes from a very old moduleset. boxes uses gtk+3
now and doesn't use python. Look at what moduleset jhbuild is using and update
it or use the correct one.

Emilio