[oe] Pidgin needs to RDEPENDS on pidgin-data?

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Thu Oct 23 15:16:16 UTC 2008


On 23-10-2008 15:55, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 15:29, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 23-10-2008 14:41, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
>>> I have a user bug report here that pidgin segfaults without pidgin-data
>>> installed:
>>> http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/170
>>>
>>> In pidgin.inc it only RRECOMMANDS pidgin-data, but not RDEPENDS on it.
>>> Patch below is what I would push if nobody objects.
>> That patch is no good. The real fix is to move the 2 files pidgin needs
>> from -data to the main package.
>
> As you already know that two files are missing, can you name them so I can
> cookup a patch?

iirc it's the .desktop and some other file, I straced a few weeks ago, 
but I'm fuzzy on the details

>
>> Also: if pidgin-data is not getting installed when installing pidgin
>> something is wrong with your feeds.
>
> Hmm, It seems I need a better understanding then. From where comes the dep from
> pidgin on pidgin-data? Do I miss some OE magic here?
>
> Besides that it could good be that the feed is broken in that regard. Time to
> fix it.
>
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt






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