On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:54:22PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
There is going to be no end of trouble on Debian unstable, but that's because the C++ libraries haven't been recompiled yet. However, this is "not our problem".
The two libraries we were waiting for, glibmm and gtkmm, have now suddenly become available (thanks to a non-maintainer upload of glibmm).
The only remaining issue is libgtkspell: installing the post-transition libgtkspell conflicts with having the pre-transition libaspell installed, and many important packages (including most of kde) still require the pre-transition libaspell.
For the inkscape debian binary I built just now, I decided to uninstall libgtkspell-dev before compiling, to prevent the binary package depending on post-transition libaspell. (gtkspell functionality isn't very valuable to me in its current state, as it tends to pick the wrong language, but most ppl won't have that problem.)
Wolfi may wish for the debian diffs to include a patch to configure.ac to disable testing for gtkspell, if there are still important packages not rebuilt by the time he returns from holiday. (OTOH, an arguments in favour of depending on post-transition gtkspell is that it could be a good thing for the newer inkscape not to be immediately installable by everyone: it allows a gradual release, giving more chance for bugs to be found & corrected before affecting the rest of the users.)
pjrm.