[Mageia-dev] Last few packages with old udev dep... aka drop chromium-browser-unstable?

D.Morgan dmorganec at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 10:07:44 CEST 2012


On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> There are a couple packages left still needing the old udev library and
> I'd like to get them sorted now.
>
> [colin at jimmy ~]$ urpmq --whatrequires lib64udev0 libudev0
> chromium-browser-unstable
> chromium-browser-unstable
> enna
> enna
> lib64udev0
> lib64zypp901
> libmyth0.24
> libudev0
> libzypp901
>
>
> All the libs can be ignored as they are all no longer needed, so it's
> just enna and chromium-browser-unstable.
>
> For enna, it needs fixes for (I think) new GCC or newer libvalhalla, so
> it would be great if someone could look at that. I'm not familiar with
> the project, but I did find some references that it's more or less
> deprecated now (Geebox seems to have switched to xbmc as it's primary
> frontend:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/geexbox-devel/VC3WFx2h9ws)
>
> For chromium-browser-unstable I propose we just drop it. We can keep the
> -stable chromium named as it is just now although I would personally
> prefer to see it just called "chromium-browser" (as no other package has
> this strange naming policy and arguably many of them could if we shipped
> two versions). I don't see a problem re-introducing an -unstable variant
> again in the future, but unless someone is actively maintaining it it's
> arguably just getting in the way.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> (CC'ed TV as he has been the most frequent committed to -unstable of late)
>
> Col

i will update it soon ( today i hope )


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