On 23 April 2011 22:36, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Saturday 23 April 2011 10:19:42 you wrote:
>>> I see that the {redland,rasqal}-compat packages conflict with
>>> {redland,rasqal}. In the case of redland-1.0.13-1 and
>>> redland-compat-1.0.12-1 that means I cannot have both at the same
>>> time. Which means I have to choose between kdelibs (depends on
>>> soprano, hence redland-compat) and slv2 (depends on redland-1.0.13)
>>> (or, in my system, between having KDE software and having ardour).
>>>
>>> Any way around this? I'm wondering why redland-compat isn't at the
>>> same version as redland, though I'm sure if this has been done there's
>>> a pretty good reason.
>> Hi,
>> first of all rasqal > 0.9.21 and redland > 1.0.12, both requires raptor >=
>> 2.0.0 to build, that's because they are out-of-date.
>> Said that, we cannot ship a redland-base package (for example) and add a
>> redland-compat package which provides the libraries built with raptor1 and
>> depends on redland-base.
>>
>> The only way to install the both version redland and redland-compat is to
>> rename every file in the redland-compat package, (maybe using --program-suffix/-
>> prefix) but this will require patches for things like soprano (cmake files and
>> headers have to point to the -compat stuff). Patches are welcome.
>>
>> I've no others idea. We've to wait KDE devs port it to raptor2.
>>
> Fair enough. I don't think the combination of (for example) KDE and
> any non-KDE app depending on redland is all that rare. Come to think
> of it, doesn't libreoffice depend on redland as well?
>
> Not that I've any say in this, but it does seem if this rebuild is
> moved out of [testing] there'll be lots of conflicts. Not sure what
> else is affected, but basically whatever packages have been affected
> by this rebuild (at least the redland portion of it) now does not
> function with KDE?
You are correct. That's libreoffice and audacity, as can be seen now.
I think the rebuild was done slightly wrong. All these should be
changed to depend on compat packages.
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