Default libjpeg-dev in oneiric

Kate Stewart kate.stewart at canonical.com
Fri Jul 29 17:11:41 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 11:27 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> On 07/29/2011 10:47 AM, Micah Gersten wrote:
> > On 07/29/2011 02:39 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 17:54 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> >>>> CCing ubuntu-devel so people are aware of the issue
> >>>> Due to the accidental autosync, we pulled in a libjpeg8-dev that
> >>>> provides libjpeg-dev.  Should we revert that one change (not provide
> >>>> libjpeg-dev in libjpeg8) or should we try to do the transition?  There
> >>>> are a number of incomplete transitions ATM (libnotify, libssl, libav,
> >>>> boost1.4.6, and a few more with ~10 packages each).
> >>>> Attached are a list of rdepends affected.
> >>> ...ouch.
> >>> Given we'll be putting out the A3 release next week, and I don't believe
> >>> this update and transition is essential, my preference would be to
> >>> revert it for now,  and then after A3's out,  assess if if makes sense
> >>> to pull it in and manage the transition, or wait until P-series for this
> >>> one.   
> >>> Given all the stuff about to land for A3 and Feature Freeze almost upon
> >>> us, it seems a bit risky to add this in,  esp. with folks going on
> >>> vacation right now.
> >>> What do others think?
> >> I agree, best to back this out.  Micah, will you upload the necessary
> >> change?  (Sooner better than later, so we don't drift too much while
> >> libjpeg8-dev is the default?)
> >>
> > Actually, libjpeg8-dev isn't the default ATM. Anything with libjpeg-dev
> > as a build depend will FTBFS since 2 packages provide the same virtual
> > libjpeg-dev package.  I'll prepare an upload to fix, but I need it
> > sponsored still.
> > Thanks,
> > Micah
> >
> This has been uploaded and should be available after the next publisher run.

Thanks Micah!  :)

Kate





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