[610] in athena10
Re: debathena-pidgin-wrapper pre-hardy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Fri Nov 7 21:30:29 2008
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 21:27:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Greg Price wrote:
> It looks like debathena-workstation doesn't install on Etch without
> backports, because debathena-workstation depends
> debathena-pidgin-wrapper depends pidgin doesn't exist.
>
> Then if pidgin is installed from etch-backports,
> debathena-cluster-software won't install because it wants either
> pidgin-encryption | gaim-encryption, and pidgin-encryption doesn't
> exist in etch-backports but gaim-encryption depends gaim, which pidgin
> conflicts with before a transitional version introduced in lenny.
>
> What's the right solution to this? I think what we really want is to
> punt debathena-pidgin-wrapper on etch, dapper, feisty. I don't know a
> clean way to express that.
One option is to make debathena-pidgin-wrapper actually act as
debathena-pidgin-or-gaim-wrapper, and have it declare all the Debathena
dependencies on either pidgin or gaim, depending on the release (removing
the direct dependencies on them from debathena-cluster-software).
-Tim Abbott
[CCing athena10 since design discussions like this should go there]
