Re: [Evolution] Package dependencies and debian

[Peter Teichman <peter ximian com>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:56PM -0500, Jonathan A. LaCour wrote:
> Due to some seeming package conflicts in debian, after upgrading my box
> yesterday (unstable branch), I now have a version of evolution which is
> unable to compose.  I get "Can't open composer window" and the following
> errors on the command line:
>
>       Bonobo-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL for app
>       evolution-message-composer
>
>       Bonobo-WARNING **: Object is NIL
>
>       Bonobo-WARNING **: Activation exception 'Moniker interface cannot be
>       found'
>
> It occurs to me that this could be a bonobo issue =)  
>
> I also have nautilus 0.5 installed from debian's unstable
> branch.  Everything is essentially binaries that relates to this problem.
>
> I think that if the debian package maintainer at Ximian could make it so
> that their version of bonobo is more recent, that would be good.

This isn't really possible - the bonobo interface changes binary
compatibility at every release, and there have been a couple bonobo
releases since the last evolution one. We're stuck with a bonobo that
evolution won't work with in unstable.

> Is there a way I can get nightly builds at an apt location for
> debian?  This may solve the problem as well.  Thanks!

Try:
deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/evolution-snapshots/distributions/Debian/ unstable main

I think that's the right one..

Peter