On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:30:38PM -0500, Pavlo Solntsev wrote: > ok, I was able to compile the package with ui support. Could you please > explain why this option was turned off?
Debian is a volunteer project. You're the only one showing interest for this package. Who are you adressing when you say 'Could *you* ...'? Please note that libgda5 is up for removal from debian because of lacking interest from volunteers to keep it in shape. If you want it to stay around *you* need to step up and contribute. Speaking about that thanks for your effort of your previously submitted patch. It's roughly equivalent to the upstream commit https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgda/commit/?id=68af249e1c36cbac2e3990 In other words the problem has already been fixed upstream, together with several other issues that might also be relevant. Unfortunately the upstream software has not seen a new release in over two years now. It looks like upstream might need someone to volunteer helping out. Right now, with the upstream project basically dead and with basically no applications in debian using libgda anymore and very few people showing interest in actually maintaining the software it's not looking bright to expand the offered functionality. First step would be to maintain the currently offered functionality, then move on to expand it if successful and you're able to provide additional resources on top of that. Please see the following urls where you can track debian information: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libgda5 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=libgda5 Here are some instructions that might be helpful for you to work on the packaging: apt install devscripts svn-buildpackage mkdir -p ~/playground cd ~/playground debcheckout --source=download-only libgda5 cd libgda5 wget -O debian/patches/git_fix_libgda-ui_build.patch \ https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgda/patch/?id=68af249e1c36cbac2 echo "git_fix_libgda-ui_build.patch" >> debian/patches/series svn add debian/patches/* dch -i svn-buildpackage Hope this helps. If you want to enable building an additional shared library from the sources you likely need to modify debian/rules for configure flags and then debian/control to add the new library package + the new development package. Then finally add debian/<pkgname>.install files listing which files to ship in the package. Don't forget to list (the reason for) your changes in debian/changelog. Once you've produced a working package feel free to submit your changes to this bug report. Also do come visit #debian-gnome on OFTC (irc.debian.org). Regards, Andreas Henriksson
