On 2012-05-15 06:38, tony mancill wrote: > On 05/14/2012 08:18 AM, Jakub Adam wrote: >> In my opinion libswt-gtk-3.5-java and libswt-3-gtk-java are not in >> conflict, >> generally it's ok to have them installed both. The problem is in tuxguitar >> package itself which will not work with SWT 3.5. >> >> So I suggest that we make tuxguitar to conflict with libswt-gtk-3.5-java >> (and maybe also with libswt-gtk-3.4-java and libswt-gtk-3.6-java I see >> in Grant's package list too). > > Hi Jakub, > > There are times in the past when tuxguitar explicitly depended on > libswt-gtk-3.5-jar, so it seems odd to say that tuxguitar won't work > with it. What seems to be the case is that tuxguitar won't work when > both -3.5 and -3 packages are install. > > Could it be due to the version of libswt-gtk-3-java that was used when > the tuxguitar binary was built? (That is, should it be a versioned > dependency on libswt-gtk-3-java?) Also, I'm able to install both > libswt-gtk-3.5-java and libswt-3-gtk-java in a clean chroot and still > run tuxguitar without a problem. In any event, I'm not trying to > contradict your assertion; merely understand it. > > Cheers, > tony >
I believe that swt uses alternatives for the swt.jar, so if you have an older version of libswt-*-java providing the alternative without (all) the relevant -jni package => "boom". Now that should not be possible to do, but it is... """ un libswt-gnome-gtk-3.5-jni <none> [...] un libswt-gnome-gtk-3.6-jni <none> [...] [...] ii libswt-gtk-3.5-java 3.5.1-5 [...] ii libswt-gtk-3.6-java 3.6.2-1 [...] """ Presumably the dependency relations on the old -jni packages (or on the old -java packages) are not strong enough. Personally, I think the swt alternatives is... "weird" at best. So I would vote for breaking the old packages to force their removal and then remove the usage of alternatives in Wheezy+1. I think the original idea was to allow co-installation of two (API/ABI) incompatiable swt jars to smoothing transitions - however they are not going to enabled at the same time, so we would end up breaking some programs during a transition anyway. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
