Re: gnome-desktop-2.20.3-3

Daniel Macks wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:59:22AM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>   
>> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>     
>>> Am 24.09.2008 um 03:50 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> libxml2-py25: /sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/drv_libxml2.pyc
>>>> libxml2-py25: /sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2.pyc
>>>> libxml2-py25: /sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
>>>> libxml2-py25: /sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2.py
>>>>         
>>> Ah, these are missing! Because I never installed Fink's Python ...
>>>
>>> Thanks! Now I know what is needed!
>>>       
>> libxml2-py25 appears to be a missing dependency.  I'm not sure if it
>> needs to be added directly or elsewhere in the chain, but it doesn't
>> appear in:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-cache dotty gnome-desktop | grep xml
>> "gnome-desktop" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "gnome-desktop4-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libxml2-shlibs" -> "libiconv";
>> "libxml2-shlibs" -> "darwin";
>> "libgnomeui2" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "gnome-vfs2-unified-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "gconf2" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libgnomeui2-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "gconf2-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libbonobo2" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libglade2-shlibs" -> "libxml2-bin";
>> "libglade2-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libgnomecanvas2" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libxml2-bin" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libxml2-bin" -> "libncurses5-shlibs";
>> "libxml2-bin" -> "readline5-shlibs";
>> "libxml2-bin" -> "darwin";
>> "libbonoboui2-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "shared-mime-info" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libgnome2-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libxslt-bin" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>> "libxslt-shlibs" -> "libxml2-shlibs";
>>
>> This issue will need to be corrected.  Thanks for finding this.
>>     
>
> xml2po (in gnome-doc-utils) does appear to need libxml2.py (in
> libxml2-py25). And yet looking at the latest unstable,
> gnome-desktop-2.20.3-3 has
>   BuildDepends: gnome-doc-utils (>= 0.12.0-1)
> and gnome-doc-utils-0.12.2-1 has
>   Depends: libxml2-py25 (>= 2.6.12-1)
>
> So the question is why akh's reverse-depends and Peter's gnome-desktop
> build didn't pick up that latter dependency.
>
> dan
>
>   
Aha!

It didn't show up on my reverse-depends because it's a BuildDepend,
which isn't tracked by our APT. 

This of course, doesn't explain Peter's result, since he was explicitly
building the package.


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