stuck

Jani Monoses jani.monoses at gmail.com
Sat Sep 23 10:10:21 BST 2006


>>      The problem with this approach was that in CDBS, the packaging 
>> system most of these packages use it is not straightforward to run two 
>> builds with different options one after another. Gauvain Pocentek has 
>> worked on this recently, getting gcalctool to build with both gnome and 
>> gtk only variants.
> 
> Is this solved now for the general CDBS case, not only for this one package?

It should be applicable to other packages using CDBS as well when done 
cleanly which Gauvain is working on now.

>> How can this particular issue be solved? Ubuntu has diverged from debian 
>> or pioneered stuff when it made sense before. It is just that since 
>> gnome maintainers care primarily about gnome it is hard to convince them 
>> that this is a case that 'makes sense'.
> 
> Can you point me to the discussion which led to this impasse?
> 

It happened on the non-logged #gnome-debian channel on gimpnet.

Jani




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