Re: colord from git not buildable on ubuntu 13.04/Debian Sid

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 28 December 2012 08:43, Thomas Bechtold <thomasbechtold jpberlin de> wrote:
> I tried to build colord with jhbuild on Ubuntu 13.04 and got the
> following error:
> Are the profiles really needed by colord?

I committed this recently:

commit f871ac48ba90d232a44147c7eab0b345846f3a01
Author: Richard Hughes <richard hughsie com>
Date:   Mon Dec 24 15:22:19 2012 +0000

    Check we have shared-color-profiles or a compatible profile set

    Using some of the random profiles on distros means we get varied
and obscure bugs.

    For instance, profiles that do not have a ProfileID pre-computed
mean that the
    daemon is forced to calculate MD5 sums and is very slow to start which makes
    colord look broken when profiling boot speed.

    Also, some profile sets do not provide some key profiles that applications
    depend on which is hurting my argument that applications should
not ship thier
    own profiles and instead use a known-good system copy.

There's a bug open here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58850

Two solutions spring to mind:

* shared-color-profiles are folded into colord
* shared-color-profiles is packaged and shipped by Debian/Ubuntu

Richard.