GNOME 2.16 in Experimental

Jerome Warnier · External Since: Nov 17, 2004 Posts: 166

Hi,

I'm very pleased to see many large parts of GNOME 2.16 already in
Experimental. The speed improvement is amazing. I upgraded, and on the
two (quite old) PC I tested it on, everything seems smoother,
quicker, ...

I've noticed though some trouble to install several packages which are
already available, but not their dependencies:
# apt-get install -t experimental metacity gnome-terminal gnome-power-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-power-manager: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but it is not installable
gnome-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (>= 1:0.13.3) but it is not going to be installed
metacity: Depends: metacity-common (= 1:2.16.2-1) but 1:2.14.5-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I don't really expect anything, but felt important to let you know.
Hope it helps.
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Jerome Warnier · External Since: Nov 17, 2004 Posts: 166

Also, gnome-media is built with libnautilus-burn3, not the up-to-date
libnautilus-burn4.

[..]
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Loïc · External Since: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 475

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gnome-power-manager: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but it is not installable
> gnome-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (>= 1:0.13.3) but it is not going to be installed
> metacity: Depends: metacity-common (= 1:2.16.2-1) but 1:2.14.5-2 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> I don't really expect anything, but felt important to let you know.
> Hope it helps.

Probably ultimately missing packages on your architecture, especially
if it's i386.

Feel free to bin NMU the missing architectures.

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Loïc · External Since: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 475

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Also, gnome-media is built with libnautilus-burn3, not the up-to-date
> libnautilus-burn4.

This is on purpose. We build with as much from unstable as the
build-dependencies permit.

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Guilherme de S. Pastore · External Since: Sep 11, 2005 Posts: 9

Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.04 +0100, Jerome Warnier ha scritto:
> gnome-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (>= 1:0.13.3) but it is not going to be installed

libvte9 (1:0.14.0-1) is only available in experimental.

> metacity: Depends: metacity-common (= 1:2.16.2-1) but 1:2.14.5-2 is to be installed

Same here: metacity-common in the required version (1:2.16.2-1) is only
available in experimental.

apt-get is not as smart as it takes to pull these packages from
experimental without you telling it to do so explicitly.

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Guilherme de S. Pastore · External Since: Sep 11, 2005 Posts: 9

Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.20 +0100, Loïc Minier ha scritto:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > gnome-power-manager: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but it is not installable
> > gnome-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (>= 1:0.13.3) but it is not going to be installed
> > metacity: Depends: metacity-common (= 1:2.16.2-1) but 1:2.14.5-2 is to be installed
> > E: Broken packages
> > I don't really expect anything, but felt important to let you know.
> > Hope it helps.
>
> Probably ultimately missing packages on your architecture, especially
> if it's i386.

metacity-common is arch: all, and libvte9 is available on alpha, amd64,
arm, hppa, i386 and m68k - not the case here, I'm afraid.

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Xavier Bestel · External Since: Nov 10, 2004 Posts: 196

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 08:24 -0200, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.20 +0100, Loïc Minier ha scritto:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > > gnome-power-manager: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but it is not installable
> > > gnome-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (>= 1:0.13.3) but it is not going to be installed
> > > metacity: Depends: metacity-common (= 1:2.16.2-1) but 1:2.14.5-2 is to be installed
> > > E: Broken packages
> > > I don't really expect anything, but felt important to let you know.
> > > Hope it helps.
> >
> > Probably ultimately missing packages on your architecture, especially
> > if it's i386.
>
> metacity-common is arch: all, and libvte9 is available on alpha, amd64,
> arm, hppa, i386 and m68k - not the case here, I'm afraid.

The problem is that it conflicts with libvte4, used by synaptic and
anjuta.

Xav

Loïc · External Since: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 475

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> The problem is that it conflicts with libvte4, used by synaptic and
> anjuta.

Indeed. Some package inter-dependencies similar to libvte$soname <->
libvte-common have been relaxed, but for the same major version (e.g.
gconf2 2.16.0- depends on gconf2-common (>= 2.16), gconf2-common (<<
2.17)).

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Josselin Mouette · External Since: Nov 09, 2004 Posts: 1057

Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 01:29 +0100, Marco Cabizza a écrit :
> Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.04 +0100, Jerome Warnier ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm very pleased to see many large parts of GNOME 2.16 already in
> > Experimental. The speed improvement is amazing. I upgraded, and on the
> > two (quite old) PC I tested it on, everything seems smoother,
> > quicker, ...
>
> Hi, Jerome, I would especially like you to test the experimental
> gnome-control-center version.

.... as soon as it gets out of NEW Wink

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Jerome Warnier · External Since: Nov 17, 2004 Posts: 166

Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 01:29 +0100, Marco Cabizza a écrit :
> Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.04 +0100, Jerome Warnier ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm very pleased to see many large parts of GNOME 2.16 already in
> > Experimental. The speed improvement is amazing. I upgraded, and on the
> > two (quite old) PC I tested it on, everything seems smoother,
> > quicker, ...
>
> Hi, Jerome, I would especially like you to test the experimental
> gnome-control-center version. It's known to be _really_ buggy ( it's the
> worst bug source in 2.16 AFAICS, let alone GTK+ ), and I would like
> users to test it and see if it's _THAT_ worse.
Please let me know when available (or where to take it from).
I'm particularly eager to see GNOME 2.16 released with Etch, if that's
still possible after all (officially, we are only a few days ahead,
right?).

> Beware! Smile

>
> Ciao
> ~marco
>
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Tshepang Lekhonkhobe · External Since: Jun 15, 2006 Posts: 140

On 11/29/06, Jerome Warnier <jwarnier DeleteThis @beeznest.net> wrote:
> Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 01:29 +0100, Marco Cabizza a écrit :
> > Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.04 +0100, Jerome Warnier ha scritto:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm very pleased to see many large parts of GNOME 2.16 already in
> > > Experimental. The speed improvement is amazing. I upgraded, and on the
> > > two (quite old) PC I tested it on, everything seems smoother,
> > > quicker, ...
> >
> > Hi, Jerome, I would especially like you to test the experimental
> > gnome-control-center version. It's known to be _really_ buggy ( it's the
> > worst bug source in 2.16 AFAICS, let alone GTK+ ), and I would like
> > users to test it and see if it's _THAT_ worse.
> Please let me know when available (or where to take it from).
> I'm particularly eager to see GNOME 2.16 released with Etch, if that's
> still possible after all (officially, we are only a few days ahead,
> right?).

Etch ships with 2.14. Look at this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2006/11/msg00021.html

Jerome Warnier · External Since: Nov 17, 2004 Posts: 166

Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 15:07 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a
écrit :
> On 11/29/06, Jerome Warnier <jwarnier.TakeThisOut@beeznest.net> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 01:29 +0100, Marco Cabizza a écrit :
> > > Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.04 +0100, Jerome Warnier ha scritto:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm very pleased to see many large parts of GNOME 2.16 already in
> > > > Experimental. The speed improvement is amazing. I upgraded, and on the
> > > > two (quite old) PC I tested it on, everything seems smoother,
> > > > quicker, ...
> > >
> > > Hi, Jerome, I would especially like you to test the experimental
> > > gnome-control-center version. It's known to be _really_ buggy ( it's the
> > > worst bug source in 2.16 AFAICS, let alone GTK+ ), and I would like
> > > users to test it and see if it's _THAT_ worse.
> > Please let me know when available (or where to take it from).
> > I'm particularly eager to see GNOME 2.16 released with Etch, if that's
> > still possible after all (officially, we are only a few days ahead,
> > right?).
>
> Etch ships with 2.14. Look at this:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2006/11/msg00021.html
I know, I know.
But I don't know the delay Stable's release (this time Etch) will get
this time, if it's more than 6 months, GNOME 2.16 may eventually ship
with it. I'm still hoping.
Otherwise, I'll probably think about Sid, or maybe even Ubuntu...

However, keep up the good work, guys.
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Tshepang Lekhonkhobe · External Since: Jun 15, 2006 Posts: 140

On 11/29/06, Jerome Warnier <jwarnier RemoveThis @beeznest.net> wrote:
> > Etch ships with 2.14. Look at this:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2006/11/msg00021.html
> I know, I know.
> But I don't know the delay Stable's release (this time Etch) will get
> this time, if it's more than 6 months, GNOME 2.16 may eventually ship
> with it. I'm still hoping.

I was also hoping, but the release team is pretty sure that Etch will
be stable before 2007. I, on the other hand, am wondering if RC2 of
debian-installer won't delay the release to January.

> Otherwise, I'll probably think about Sid, or maybe even Ubuntu...

C'mon, stick with Debian Smile

They just might provide backports for 2.16...

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Josselin Mouette · External Since: Nov 09, 2004 Posts: 1057

Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 12:00 +0100, Jerome Warnier a écrit :
> I'm particularly eager to see GNOME 2.16 released with Etch, if that's
> still possible after all (officially, we are only a few days ahead,
> right?).

There is still a lot to do to have GNOME 2.16 mature enough for a stable
release, and I still feel the decision to ship GNOME 2.14 was the right
one. This is in no way an official statement from the GNOME team, but
here is my view of the state of GNOME 2.16.
* GTK+: I've just received a patch for the most annoying bug
(missing icons in the file chooser). However I'm afraid the
filechooser API is still a nest for many other ones.
* Gnome-VFS: this one was moved to DBUS, which is an important
change, but I haven't noticed any regressions so far. However,
to benefit from the improvements nautilus needs to be updated as
well.
* Icon themes: the icon naming scheme was entirely switched to
Tango, but only for the default theme. Which means there is a
lot to do to have other working icon themes. Help to migrate
especially Gorilla, Gartoon and Nuvola is welcome.
* gnome-themes: several themes have been removed without a clean
upgrade path. This one is probably the matter of a few symbolic
links.
* evince: needs more testing. I noticed some issues with djvu
support, but this may be bearable, or we could deactivate it. It
also needs libpoppler1 which affects TeX as well.
* control-center: this one is rumoured to be horribly buggy. I can
tell at least that the gswitchit code doesn't work *at all*.
Even given enough delay for the rest of the work (which is
unlikely), I'm not sure this one (and gnome-session which is
entangled with it) could make it, and I don't know whether it
will make it to unstable before 2.18.
* Many packages depend on either GTK+, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-vfs
or all of them, this is what is blocking most of them.

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Tim Dijkstra · External Since: Jan 27, 2005 Posts: 23

Op Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:11:45 +0100
schreef Josselin Mouette <joss.RemoveThis@debian.org>:

> * evince: needs more testing. I noticed some issues with djvu
> support, but this may be bearable, or we could deactivate it.
> It also needs libpoppler1 which affects TeX as well.

The evince currently in testing is so buggy, the new one can't be
worse than that... So I don't think evince should be a 2.16-stopper.

Note however I have no clue about the rest of gnome 2.16, so I'm not
advocating for it's release with etch here. (In other words I'll just
crawl back under my rock).

grts Tim

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Jerome Warnier · External Since: Nov 17, 2004 Posts: 166

Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 15:11 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 12:00 +0100, Jerome Warnier a écrit :
> > I'm particularly eager to see GNOME 2.16 released with Etch, if that's
> > still possible after all (officially, we are only a few days ahead,
> > right?).
>
> There is still a lot to do to have GNOME 2.16 mature enough for a stable
> release, and I still feel the decision to ship GNOME 2.14 was the right
> one. This is in no way an official statement from the GNOME team, but
> here is my view of the state of GNOME 2.16.
> * GTK+: I've just received a patch for the most annoying bug
> (missing icons in the file chooser). However I'm afraid the
> filechooser API is still a nest for many other ones.
> * Gnome-VFS: this one was moved to DBUS, which is an important
> change, but I haven't noticed any regressions so far. However,
> to benefit from the improvements nautilus needs to be updated as
> well.
> * Icon themes: the icon naming scheme was entirely switched to
> Tango, but only for the default theme. Which means there is a
> lot to do to have other working icon themes. Help to migrate
> especially Gorilla, Gartoon and Nuvola is welcome.
> * gnome-themes: several themes have been removed without a clean
> upgrade path. This one is probably the matter of a few symbolic
> links.
> * evince: needs more testing. I noticed some issues with djvu
> support, but this may be bearable, or we could deactivate it. It
> also needs libpoppler1 which affects TeX as well.
> * control-center: this one is rumoured to be horribly buggy. I can
> tell at least that the gswitchit code doesn't work *at all*.
> Even given enough delay for the rest of the work (which is
> unlikely), I'm not sure this one (and gnome-session which is
> entangled with it) could make it, and I don't know whether it
> will make it to unstable before 2.18.
> * Many packages depend on either GTK+, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-vfs
> or all of them, this is what is blocking most of them.

Glad to read all this. Such a summary is really interesting from time to
time to keep people informed.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not insisting to have GNOME 2.16 in Etch at all
prices, but seing the improvements that the current experimental
packages did bring to my machines, it would be great if at all possible,
while still keeping the Debian quality level high.

One more thing: it seems that GNOME 2.18 is building automatically fine
under jhbuild. See http://jhbuild.bxlug.be. (UPDATE: gstreamer seems to
be unfetchable, so its dependencies fail too)

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Xavier Bestel · External Since: Nov 10, 2004 Posts: 196

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:48 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 08:24 -0200, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> > Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.20 +0100, Loïc Minier ha scritto:
> > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > > > gnome-power-manager: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but it is not installable
> > > > gnome-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (>= 1:0.13.3) but it is not going to be installed
> > > > metacity: Depends: metacity-common (= 1:2.16.2-1) but 1:2.14.5-2 is to be installed
> > > > E: Broken packages
> > > > I don't really expect anything, but felt important to let you know.
> > > > Hope it helps.
> > >
> > > Probably ultimately missing packages on your architecture, especially
> > > if it's i386.
> >
> > metacity-common is arch: all, and libvte9 is available on alpha, amd64,
> > arm, hppa, i386 and m68k - not the case here, I'm afraid.
>
> The problem is that it conflicts with libvte4, used by synaptic and
> anjuta.

It looks like this is still unresolved. Are there people able to install
gnome from experimental, if yes how ?

Thanks,
Xav

Xavier Bestel · External Since: Nov 10, 2004 Posts: 196

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:00 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:48 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 08:24 -0200, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> > > Il giorno mar, 28/11/2006 alle 11.20 +0100, Loïc Minier ha scritto:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > > > > gnome-power-manager: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but it is not installable
> > > > > gnome-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (>= 1:0.13.3) but it is not going to be installed
> > > > > metacity: Depends: metacity-common (= 1:2.16.2-1) but 1:2.14.5-2 is to be installed
> > > > > E: Broken packages
> > > > > I don't really expect anything, but felt important to let you know.
> > > > > Hope it helps.
> > > >
> > > > Probably ultimately missing packages on your architecture, especially
> > > > if it's i386.
> > >
> > > metacity-common is arch: all, and libvte9 is available on alpha, amd64,
> > > arm, hppa, i386 and m68k - not the case here, I'm afraid.
> >
> > The problem is that it conflicts with libvte4, used by synaptic and
> > anjuta.
>
> It looks like this is still unresolved. Are there people able to install
> gnome from experimental, if yes how ?

Would it be possible for people having compiled them themselves to NMU
the packages ?

Xav

Remco van de Meent · External Since: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 6

Hi

> Would it be possible for people having compiled them themselves to NMU
> the packages ?

I don't want to NMU the packages, as I have not thoroughly checked
them, but maybe the packages at the following location are of any help:
http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~remco/deb/

regards,
Remco

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Xavier Bestel · External Since: Nov 10, 2004 Posts: 196

Hi Remco,

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:59 +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> Hi
>
> > Would it be possible for people having compiled them themselves to NMU
> > the packages ?
>
> I don't want to NMU the packages, as I have not thoroughly checked
> them, but maybe the packages at the following location are of any help:
> http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~remco/deb/

With your packages installed, libvte4 conflicts with libvte-common
1:0.14.1-1 (it needs 1:0.12.2-4), so synaptic can't be installed
(neither can gnome-apt), so gnome can't be installed too.
After looking at dependencies a bit more, it looks like neither gnome-
desktop-environment nor gnome-core can be installed because of several
missing dependencies.

Thanks for your help anyway,

Xav

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