Bug#704177: libgnome-desktop-3-2: dependency on gnome-desktop3-data=3.4.2-1 blocks gnome-desktop3-data from being updated past 3.4.2-1

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

tag 704177 + pending
thanks

On 03/29/2013 12:38 AM, Alex Vanderpol wrote:
> Package: libgnome-desktop-3-2
> Version: 3.4.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This has actually been an issue since GNOME 3.6 entered Experimental.
> 
> libgnome-desktop-3-2 version 3.4.2-1 depends on gnome-desktop3-data being
> exactly the same version, preventing gnome-desktop3-data from being updated
> beyond that version. Since Eye of GNOME (eog) still depends on this package
> (even at version 3.8), I cannot update gnome-desktop3-data past version 3.4.2-1
> without removing eog and libgnome-desktop-3-2.
> 
> I'm not sure if there's anything in gnome-desktop3-data that libgnome-
> desktop-3-2 depends on so strictly that it can't work with newer versions of
> the package and have it's dependency changed to be on gnome-desktop3-data
> greater than or equal to version 3.4.2-1 (which is what libgnome-desktop-3-4
> and libgnome-desktop-3-7 currently have as their dependency on that package),
> but if there's not, would it at all be possible to fix that dependency so
> gnome-desktop3-data can be updated?

I fixed this a month ago in svn, but I didn't deem the change important enough
to upload it to unstable during the freeze.

For now I'm making eog pick the new libgnome-desktop. The other change will have
to wait.

Cheers,
Emilio