On 28-Nov-08, at 11:43 , Daniel Macks wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:32:41PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote:
>> Kevin Horton wrote:
>>> I am trying to update the cadabra package, but a build attempt in
>>> maintainer mode complains:
>>>
>>> WARNING: The package cadabra has a preferred BuildDepends on  
>>> gtkmm2.4-
>>> dev,
>>>          but gtkmm2.4-dev is an obsolete package.
>>>
>>> But, neither the output of fink info gtkmm2.4-dev, nor an inspection
>>> of its info file gives me any clue as to what I should replace this
>>> build dependency with.
>>
>> From my reading of the info file, I would guess that the package to
>> build-depend on is now named gtkmm2.4-gtk-dev. It would be nice,  
>> though,
>> if this were explained somewhere in the Desc parts of the info file  
>> and
>> one wouldn't be left guessing.
>
> That feature is implemented in 'fink info' in the next release of  
> fink:
>
>  $ fink info gtkmm2.4-dev
>  [...usual stuff, then...]
>  Note: This package is obsolete. Maintainers should upgrade their
>   package dependencies to use its replacement, which is probably:
>   gtkmm2.4-gtk-dev (>= 2.14.3-1), pangomm1.4.1 (>= 2.14.0-1)

Thanks.  That worked.

--
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada




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