Re: [Ekiga-list] Debian packages

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Le mardi 30 décembre 2008 à 20:39 +0100, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > gnome-desktop-environment depends on ekiga (>= 2.0.12)
> > 
> > Since 'aptitude install ekiga-snapshot' removes ekiga,
> > gnome-desktop-environment becomes BROKEN and the installation
> > would REMOVE 47 other packages.
> > 
> > As far as I'm concerned, this means that ekiga-snapshot is NOT
> > installable.
> > 
> > I think that the problem is that the version number for ekiga-snapshot
> > is 0-20081220-1 which is less than 2.0.12. Perhaps if the version number
> > were changed to something greater that 2.0.12 (eg, 3-20081220-1) then
> > the problem would go away.
>
> Hi,
>
> Increasing the version of ekiga-snapshot does not work.
>
> There are two solutions:
> - either stay as we are now.  Note that only gnome-desktop-environment 
> is removed (+old pwlwib/opal), not 47 packages!!
> - or do not use ekiga-snapshot anymore, but ekiga (while ptlib and opal 
> are still named -snapshot, to avoid soname problems).  Note that this 
> will not be intrusive or conflict with debian package, because the 
> version will be carefully chosen.
>
> What do people prefer??

I plan to change the name from ekiga-snapshot to ekiga.  This means:
- gnome-desktop-env will work
- you have to install/upgrade ekiga, not ekiga-snapshot anymore

(Note that the naming ptlib-snapshot and opal-snapshot remain.)

--
Eugen