Hi all, while packaging (k)powersave for Debian, which need relatively up-to-date hal (>= 0.5.4) and dbus (>= 0.33) packages, I encountered the problem that hal/dbus in Sid are currently pretty outdated whereas the hal/dbus packages in experimental would be sufficient. This left me two options: 1.) Wait until hal/dbus and all the dependant packages have made the transition or 2.) Build packages for experimental.
For the first option this would mean to wait for Gnome 2.10 to enter testing and then Gnome 2.12, which already is in experimental and builds against current dbus/hal, to enter unstable. For most of the packages, that depend on dbus/hal, it is almost as easy as adapting the control file and just recompile. As Ubuntu already has made the transition there exist patches for packages which fail to build against the current hal/dbus. Remains kdebase, which has packages in experimental, but these packages don't use hal/dbus from experimental but from unstable (the package in question is kdebase-kio-plugins). So my question is what is the proposed schedule for the hal/dbus transition? Maybe the Gnome/KDE maintainers and the RMs can comment on this. With all the currently ongoing transitions I fear that I will take some time. With that in mind I intended to build (k)powersave for experimental. As kpowersave is a KDE application it would need an updated kdebase package in experimental which uses current hal/dbus. Otherwise a installation of kpowersave would remove half of your KDE desktop which is certainly not what you want if you install a KDE application and would render kpowersave itself unusable. This led me to my other question: Is it okay to upload a package to experimental which has dependencies to packages in unstable although there are corresponding packages in experimental. E.g. the aforementioned kdebase package in experimental doesn't use hal/dbus from experimental. It even fails to compile if you try to build it with pbuilder in an experimental chroot due to broken dependencies. I hope somenone can comment on this. Cheers, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------ E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.teco.edu/ TecO (Telecooperation Office) Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str.1 University of Karlsruhe 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------
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