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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and D.Morgan at 11/07/12 09:07 did gyre and gimble:
> 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 )

Cool. I presume you mean the crhomium bit?

What about the enna? Anyone know anything about that?

Col


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