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

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:13:04 -0700
Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:

> 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. 
> 

Because they were marked as missing dependencies in:

http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt

And I wanted to reduce the missing-deps list. But so far I see that I am
running into many dead ends with reducing the missing-deps list, and so I'm not
sure I'd like to continue with doing this anymore.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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