[Mageia-dev] Fw: The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Sun Aug 28 00:13:04 CEST 2011


On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:57:20 am Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:47:37 +0300
> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
> To: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
> Cc: thomas at btspuhler.com
> Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700
> 
> Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:17:56 am Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I just rebuilt a few horde-* packages for which there were missing
> > > dependencies in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt
> > > , but now there are more that are not there:
> > > 
> > > horde-compress
> > > horde-datatree
> > > horde-history
> > > horde-secret
> > > horde-text-filter
> > > horde-token
> > > 
> > > This reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
> > > where if you cut one of its heads, then two grow instead.
> > > 
> > > How can we resolve all the horde dependencies for good? Why do they
> > > reappear? What is the underlying problem?
> > > 
> > > I'm CCing it to mageia-sysadm because it may be a Sys admin problem.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > 	Shlomi Fish
> > 
> > These will be removed when the whole horde tree is done. The new names
> > are:]
> > 
> > php-pear-Horde.....
> > 
> > I am working on them, but there are a lot of deps to be built.
> 
> I don't understand exactly how these things are related? Why have we been
> having lots of broken horde-* dependencies for a long while? Why do horde-*
> packages disappear? Can we discuss this on IRC? I am "rindolf" there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
Why did you rebuild these? They have been obsoleted in i586 with php-pear-
Horde packages with mostly the same name. 

-- 
Thomas


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