[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release gnome-shell-3.6.0-3.mga3

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 11/10/12 10:21 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:47:01AM +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> 11.10.2012 11:14, Olav Vitters skrev:
>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 05:08:51PM +0200, ennael wrote:
>>>>   + dmorgan <dmorgan>
>>>>     - Make gnome-shell to require libmutter-gir3.0 ( mga #7710 )
>>>
>>> This is wrong.
>>>
>>> $ rpm -q lib64mutter-gir3.0  --provides
>>> lib64mutter-gir3.0 = 3.6.0-1.mga3
>>> lib64mutter-gir3.0(x86-64) = 3.6.0-1.mga3
>>> typelib(Meta) = 3.0
>>>
>>> $ rpm -q gnome-shell --requires | grep Meta
>>> typelib(Meta)
>>> typelib(Meta) = 3.0
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see why an explicit libmutter-gir3.0 would be needed.
>>>
>>
>> Because of:
>> $ urpmq --provides -p "typelib(Meta)"
>> muffin: muffin[== 1:1.1.1-1.mga3]
>> muffin: muffin(x86-64)[== 1:1.1.1-1.mga3]
>> muffin: default.so()(64bit)
>> muffin: typelib(Meta)[== 3.0]
>> 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> lib64mutter-gir3.0: lib64mutter-gir3.0[== 3.6.0-1.mga3]
>> lib64mutter-gir3.0: lib64mutter-gir3.0(x86-64)[== 3.6.0-1.mga3]
>> lib64mutter-gir3.0: typelib(Meta)[== 3.0]
>> 		    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> but gnome-shell does not work with muffin, it needs lib64mutter-gir3.0
> 
> So if Muffin is breaking this automatic dependency tracking, then IMO
> the bug is in Muffin. It (upstream/ package) should properly rename
> things as not to cause bugs in GNOME packages. Even if upstream doesn't
> do that, a muffin package should not provide something which conflicts
> with mutter. That automatic provides should be removed in Muffin IMO.
> 
> The import of Cinnamon caused a very big QA issue in GNOME. I don't like
> that. Cinnamon came after GNOME, so the extra work to support Cinnamon
> should be limited to Cinnamon packages, not GNOME ones.

+1

Col

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