Bug#868387: gwc: Please drop the (build-)dependency against gnome-vfs

Laurent Bigonville bigon at debian.org
Mon Jul 17 08:25:55 UTC 2017


Le 17/07/17 à 09:51, Jaromír Mikeš a écrit :
>
>
> 2017-07-15 13:40 GMT+02:00 <bigon at debian.org <mailto:bigon at debian.org>>:
>
> Hi Laurent,
>
>     Your package is {build-}depending against gnome-vfs which is
>     deprecated for quite some times now and has been replaced by gvfs.
>
>
> I've checked B-D of gwc package:
> Build-Depends:
>  debhelper (>= 10),
>  libasound2-dev,
>  libfftw3-dev,
>  libgnome2-dev,
>  libgnomeui-dev,
>  libpulse-dev,
>  libsndfile1-dev,
>  libvorbis-dev
>
> There is no direct B-D on gnome-vfs, but libgnome2-dev need it I guess.

Yes that dependency is indeed pulled by libgnome2 (which is also 
deprecated) I was not expecting it to leak the dependency like that TBH

>
>     Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
>
>
> There is upstream effort to switch to gnome3 what should fix this 
> problem if I understand right.
> I am copying upstream devs so they are aware of this issue.

Yes, removing these gnome2 library will fix this bug (and make the 
Debian GNOME team really happy)

Regards,

Laurent Bigonville

>
> best regards
>
> mira
>

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