Re: external dependencies review

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le mercredi 13 août 2008, à 19:24 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> while bumping the dbus version, I noticed that the telepathy stuff was
> missing on the wiki, so I took the freedom to add libtelepathy,
> telepathy-glib and telepathy-mission-control. They were already added
> to the moduleset a while ago. I also did a little review comparing the
> versions listed on the wiki page to the versions we ship in rawhide (
> == latest upstream release). Here is the list of modules where the
> recommended version on the wiki is not the same as the latest
> upstream:
> 
> cairomm              1.2.2   same    1.5.0
> dbus-python          0.80.2  same    0.83.0
> desktop-file-utils   0.10    same    0.15
> enchant              1.2.5   same    1.4.2
> expat                1.95.8  same    2.0.1
> gamin                0.1.8   same    0.1.9
> gnutls               1.4.0   same    2.4.1
> gpgme                1.0.0   same    1.1.6
> hal                  0.5.10  same    0.5.11
> icon-naming-utils    0.8.1   same    0.8.7
> iso-codes            0.53    same    3.1
> libgpg-error         1.4     same    1.6
> libgsf               1.14.5  same    1.14.8
> libmusicbrainz       2.1.3   2.1.4   2.1.5
> libtasn1             0.3.4   same    1.4
> libxslt              1.1.22  same    1.1.24
> ndesk-dbus           0.6.0   same    0.6.1a
> opencdk              0.5.8   same    0.6.6
> pkg-config           0.21    same    0.23
> poppler              0.8.0   same    0.8.5
> pycairo              1.2.2   same    1.4.12
> Python               2.4.3   same    2.5.1
> rarian               0.7.0   same    0.8.0
> shared-mime-info     0.22    0.50    0.51
> firefox              2.0     same    3.0.1
> 
> The first second and third column are the min./recommended version
> that we currently list on the wiki, the last column is the version
> that we currently ship in rawhide. Do we want to generally bump the
> recommended version to the latest ?

We might want to change "same" to "latest version in the same stable
branch" or "latest stable version"? This would fix the issue for quite
some modules since the issue here really is that bumping the recommended
version is just not fun and nobody does it.

> There are also some deps that may deserve a closer look:
> gamin - does anything require gamin directly ?

gio?

> libcolorblind - is at version 0.0.1, which is afaik the only version
> there ever was. Is this dead ? Should we rely on it ?

It might mean that there's no big change to do in this library. Probably
worth asking the accessibility people, if you have time.

Vincent

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