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

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

On 10/31/06, Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr> wrote:
> Le mardi 31 octobre 2006 à 06:38 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit :
> > 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;

Forgive me for not making it clear that I have libpoppler0c2-glib
(0.4.5) installed.

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

The installation didn't complain about the SQLite3, unless you mean
that you didn't put such dependencies on the debs...