GNOME2 development with Debian sid

["J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <dm zensunni demon nl>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:09:18 +0200, Renaud Saliou wrote:
> I can't compile cvs version of gnumeric. I use a debian system (sid
> version). I made a debian package to install properly libgsf because there
> is not yet this package because no version of libgsf was released. 

libgsf 1.2.0 is currenly making its way into project/experimental.

> Like the debian package gal is in version 0.3 and the request is >=0.5, 

I've filed a bug for that (#156283). Right now, 0.0.5 doesn't build yet due
to issues with libgnutls-dev, but that appears to be resolved soon
(#156366).

> i start to compile from cvs too, but it request gnomeConf.sh that it not 
> present on my system.

That's a bit weird. gnomeConf.sh is only used for GNOME1 AFAIK; pkg-config
is its successor in GNOME2.

> I search on http://packages.debian.org, if a package own this file and i
> found libgnome-dev 1.4.1.7-2. But if i install the package it want to
> desinstall libgnome2-dev

I can't reproduce that problem; you may want to try that again with current
sid - there have been lots of changes in the GNOME2 packages recently due to
the move to libpng3.

HTH,
Ray
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