[OE-core] [PATCH 05/22] Update libnotify to version 0.7.6

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 13:02:55 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Alexander Kanavin
> <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On 06/17/2015 05:59 PM, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> >>
> >> 0.6 is the last release that supports GTK+2 and changing this might
> >> annoy people who are avoiding GTK+3 and are using some of the recipes
> >> in meta-oe that depend on libnotify.
> >>
> >> I believe the GTK dependency is only there for tests: Modifying the
> >> build so it doesn't build tests and doesn't depend on GTK should not
> >> be difficult.
> >
> >
> > There is no way to switch off tests building in libnotify, so dropping the
> > gtk3 dependency means developing a custom source patch. I'd rather do that
> > only if there are specific complaints.
> >
> I think gtk3 is not the problem here it is the API change libnotify
> 0.6 -> 0.7 which cannot (or only by ugly hacks) be installed parallel.
> Do we know what happens to meta-gnome/meta-xfce?

I think they will get broken like 2 years ago when we tried to do this:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/57913

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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