Re: Fwd: PPA Assistance and Bug/Patch Triage

[John Stowers <john stowers gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Julien Lavergne <julien lavergne gmail com> wrote:

Hi,

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:40:13 John Stowers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Julien Lavergne
> <julien lavergne gmail com
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> > I just want to add that most of this work rely on the Debian and Ubuntu
> > packaging work. I'll try to follow them as close as possible and report
> > adjustment I made or will make (like the pysqlite2 depends :)).
>
> Thanks Julien.
>
> I have another few tweaks to the package (dependencies) on conduit-trunk,
> pretty please!
>
> * Can you remove both the Suggests: (we no longer use ffmpeg or mplayer, we
> use gstreamer instead)

Done.

> * Can you make us depend on python-gpod

Depends mean that you need this package to work. It seems this is only needed
if you want to sync an Ipod, right ? python-gpod is set as Recommends, mean
that python-gpod will be installed when you install conduit, but you can
remove it without removing conduit itself. IMO, it should stay like this.

Ok, I agree with you now. It should stay like it is

> * Can you add a dependency on python-gconf

python-gconf is already included in python-gnome2 package.

Thanks for clarifying
 

>
> I would like your advice on what to do about webkit. Updating to a newer
> PPA snapshot for webkit appears to fix all crashes on my machine for
> logging into facebook [1]. However, it seems to break other packages [2].
> What do you think should be done. Ideally I would like to just depend on
> the webkit-ppa, and then depend on a recent version that I know works, eg
> >= 1.0.1-4+r40220
>

I'm not an expert on Webkit, it depends how snapshots are stable enough.
Regarding the development of Webkit (not often release), and if it bring
improvements with no regression for conduit, it is not a bad idea.

> Is it possible to depend on another 3rd party ppa? is this nice thing to
> do?

Yes, but users need to be aware of this, or you will have many reports about
broken dependencies :) It's written on the top of the PPA page, but it
couldn't be enough.

> What about breaking peoples Gwibber?

Well, IMO it's more a Gwibber and Webkit problem :) Gwibber or Webkit packages
need to mark a conflict with each other regarding this bug, and/or fix it. At
least, and if you really want to make people aware of this, I can add a
conflict with Gwibber but it need to be removed when the bug is gone (not
recommended, it's not an usual practice).

Ok, I will wait a little longer, to see if webkit makes an updated release, either one for Jaunty, or another one that does not break Gwibber. I will revist this idea in future.

I noticed the build is broken. I will take a look and see if I can spot the problem

Thanks

John

Regards,
Julien Lavergne