[Mageia-dev] Handling GNOME 2.x Broken Dependencies

[Funda Wang]

I guess we should just remove them. Actually,  only
gnome-sensors-applet, libpanelappletmm and perl-Gnome2-PanelApplet are
affected, and those packages are not required by any other packages.

2011/8/27 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ - this page reads:
>
> <<<
> 66 broken dependencies. You can help!
>>>>
>
> I've been trying to slowly resolve these dependencies, but been running into
> some problems. Some of them were resolved by fixing this bug:
>
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839
>
> But some of them are more tricky. For example, some packages still depend on
> devel(libpanel-applet-2) which is a GNOME 2.x package that is no longer
> available in the repository. What should we do about these GNOME 2.x packages
> and their dependent packages?
>
> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>
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