[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#478572: gnustep-devel: Unmet dependency

[Yavor Doganov]

severity 478572 serious
block 478572 with 451460
tags 478572 + confirmed
thanks

Ludwig Meier wrote:
> 
> Package: gnustep-devel
> Version: 6
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Calling "apt-get install gnustep-devel" breaks and reports
> "projectcenter.app" as an unmet dependency, which is not able to be
> installed.

Thanks for the report -- we are well aware about this, but it should
be documented in the BTS so that the brokenness doesn't sneak in the
stable release.  Unfortunately the fix for this bug has to wait for a
while.

projectcenter.app is the only package not yet transitioned to GNUstep
Make 2.0.  I have prepared an upload that fixes all of its bugs, but 
had to package a snapshot of the unreleased 0.5.0 version which
unfortunately requires gnustep-gui from experimental.  The 0.4.3
version produces broken makefiles (with combination of other nasty
bugs; it is basically useless with the GNUstep stack in Lenny) and
backporting the patches is no fun, especially when the 0.5.0 release
is imminent.

It could be uploaded to experimental, but that won't help most users
as -gui 0.13 has a SONAME bump so you'll have to rebuild all the
GNUstep stuff you have installed.


Hubert, there is a very simple workaround which I believe is also the
right thing to do: Demote projectcenter.app and projectmanager.app to
Recommends:, even ORed.  That will still be just a workaround as it
breaks the release goal "satisfiable Recommends" but I guess it's less
of a problem than the present state, at least until the real solution
comes.

One can certainly do all kinds of GNUstep development without IDEs.
This applies to gorm.app as well, but to a lesser extent.  IMHO a
Suggests: relationship would be somewhat wrong given the fact that
upstream tutorials/documentation always talk about Gorm and Project
Center, so most of the users would probably want them installed.