Re: [Ekiga-list] Debian packages

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

Damien Sandras wrote:
> 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??
>
> Perhaps 1:2008blah... would work ?

I tried 3-... and installed it.  When I try to install g-d-e, it still 
wants to remove ekiga-snapshot and install ekiga etc.  So here I was 
almost sure it does not work.

I checked on debian guidelines or something like that, it says more or 
less that versioning does not work for provide, but it was not so clear 
to me.

Finally, I was on chat and their answer is in my previous e-mail.

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Eugen