Re: [Tracker] 1st try of Tracker 0.5.0 debs

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le mardi 31 octobre 2006 Ã 06:38 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a Ãcrit :
> Hi,
>
> The Tracker deb was uninstallable in Sid because of a dependency of
> libpoppler1-glib which is only available in experimental. A discussion
> on debian-release mailing concluded that poppler 0.5.x won't be
> included in Etch due to time constraints since the change required a
> transition due to an ABI change. What I did however was force
> installation of the Tracker debs, which of course breaks my system's
> package management system. tracker-search-tool does work, but does not
> index everything -- same with the other complaints with replied to
> Jamie's announcement. I doubt if this is related to the fact that I
> didn't have libpoppler1-glib installed, but instead the older
> libpoppler0c2-glib (0.4.5) debian package in Sid.
>
> Could you please downgrade the dependency so that users of the next
> Debian release (Etch) could use it without breaking their systems.
> I'll try again with the libpoppler1-glib dependency just to verify if
> the refusal to index everything remains.
>
> Thanks for providing those debs.

Poppler 0.5.x is required by Tracker but perhaps it is possible to
downgrade the required version. I did not look at the old API from
Poppler 0.4.x.
Since PDF metadata extraction depends on Poppler, you cannot obtain
metadata without Poppler being installed...

So, two options:
1/ try to use old Poppler API from 0.4.x versions if it is possible;
2/ do not build Tracker debian packages with PDF support.


And it seems that debian packages are missing dependencies on SQlite3
and QDBM...



Laurent.