compiz-fusion-plugins-extra: missing /usr/lib/compiz/libnotification.so

Daniel Pinto de Mello e Silva daniel.silva at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 04:44:41 UTC 2008


Package: compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
Version: 0.7.4-0ubuntu1
Severity: normal


The error notification plugin is missing from the package:

$ locate notif | grep compiz
/usr/lib/compiz/libinotify.so
/usr/share/compiz/inotify.xml
/usr/share/compiz/notification.xml
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/compiz-inotify.schemas
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/compiz-notification.schemas
$ dlocate /usr/share/compiz/notification.xml
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra: /usr/share/compiz/notification.xml
$ dpkg -L compiz-fusion-plugins-extra | grep notif
/usr/share/compiz/notification.xml
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/compiz-notification.schemas

Building the package from source yields:

/tmp/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra-0.7.4$ find . -name "*.so" | grep notif
./src/notification/.libs/libnotification.so
./debian/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra/usr/lib/compiz/libnotification.so

and:

$ dpkg -c compiz-fusion-plugins-extra_0.7.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb | grep notif
-rw-r--r-- root/root     11568 2008-04-25 00:20
./usr/lib/compiz/libnotification.so
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1418 2008-04-25 00:20
./usr/lib/compiz/libnotification.la
-rw-r--r-- root/root      8306 2008-04-25 00:20
./usr/lib/compiz/libnotification.a
-rw-r--r-- root/root      6173 2008-04-25 00:20
./usr/share/gconf/schemas/compiz-notification.schemas
-rw-r--r-- root/root      9302 2008-04-25 00:20
./usr/share/compiz/notification.xml

so the plugin gets built and packaged, but I don't know why the
package from the
repository doesn't include it.  This is what I have installed:

$ apt-cache policy compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra:
  Installed: 0.7.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500,
'hardy-proposed'), (500, 'hardy-backports'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages compiz-fusion-plugins-extra depends on:
ii  compiz-core         1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6     OpenGL window and compositing mana
ii  gconf2              2.22.0-0ubuntu3      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6               2.7-10ubuntu3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2           1.6.0-0ubuntu1       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.16.3-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libice6             2:1.0.4-1            X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.20.1-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6              2:1.0.3-1            X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notifica 0.9-1                library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6            2:1.1.3-1ubuntu2     X11 client-side library
ii  libx11-xcb1         2:1.1.3-1ubuntu2     Xlib/XCB interface library
ii  libxcb1             1.1-1ubuntu1         X C Binding
ii  libxcomposite1      1:0.4.0-1            X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1         1:1.1.9-1            X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1         1:1.1.1-3            X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxfixes3          1:4.0.3-2            X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxinerama1        2:1.0.2-1build1      X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2             2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2          2:1.2.2-1            X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.4-1            X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.22-1ubuntu1      XSLT processing library - runtime

compiz-fusion-plugins-extra recommends no packages.

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