On 01/04/13 22:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/01/2013 09:59 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> Agreed, but that doesn't complete the picture, as libgl1-mesa-glx >> doesn't depend on libgl1-mesa-dri: >> >> $ apt-cache depends libgl1-mesa-glx >> ... >> Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri >> > > Well, "Recommends" are installed by default, aren't they? However, I'm
Not during upgrade or dist-upgrade operations. This is specifically an upgrading issue. From man apt-get: " upgrade: ... under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed." "dist-upgrade: ... intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages" >From that, it's not clear how dist-upgrade should handle Recommends, but my dpkg.log shows that no attempt was made to install libgl1-mesa-dri automatically. > not sure why it shouldn't be depending on either "libgl1-mesa-dri" or > "libgl1-mesa-swx11" here. I mean, MESA doesn't work without either of > these, does it? I'm not sure - other parts of the desktop are working, but I haven't tested so many things yet. I'm not sure which components depend on MESA. >> Either empathy or libclutter probably need to generate a popup error >> window in this situation, if the error only appears in a console then it >> will leave users with a bad impression of any impacted binary. >> Generating such an error is independent of making sure the dependency is >> present. > > No, I don't think there should be a popup. Someone should just fix the > dependencies. Actually, empathy's error is from an assert(), a recent discussion on debian-devel found that assert() is not loved universally loved. There are various errors from empathy that appear in the same way, and they should probably all be presented in a popup. >>> Also, have you tried running Empathy on a non-compositing window manager >>> when libgl1-mesa-dri is not installed? >>> >> >> I'm happy to try that, can you propose which window manager I should >> try? I know fvwm quite well and don't mind installing that. > > Yeah, fvwm doesn't really do any compositing :). I'll share the results after I try it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5159f937.30...@pocock.com.au
