'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.
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