gnome-shell 3.7.92 unbuildable on amd64?

[Benjamin Redelings]

On 03/26/2013 01:22 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 06:00 PM, Benjamin Redelings wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>      I just wanted to note that gnome-shell 3.7.92 is unbuildable on amd64.  I
>> presume this is why the package is available for i386, but not for amd64 in
>> experimental.  gnome-shell is the last package needed in order to install gnome
>> from from experimental on amd64 - everything else appears to be installable.
> We know about it, we just don't know why. I can't reproduce it on
> i386/cowbuilder. Might just be an issue on sbuild. Somebody needs to investigate
> why the build-deps can't be installed.
>
> Emilio
So, I managed to build it on my own computer, if that's interesting.  It 
works OK, except that I don't see any battery icon in the panel.

I manually installed gsettings-desktop-schema-dev and 
libclutter-1.0-dev.  I had to remove gjs0b and things that depend on it 
like gnome-sushi.  Then  "apt-get build-deb" worked.

I had to remove a number of (previously unnoticed) unpurged library 
config files.  Until I deleted these files, the gnome-shell deb ended up 
depending on a number of no-longer-installed versions, like libgjs0b, 
libmutter0a, gnome-shell-common (=3.6.2-2).  But after I removed the 
config files, it was fine.

-BenRI