[Mageia-dev] Handling GNOME 2.x Broken Dependencies

Sat Aug 27 17:28:09 CEST 2011

I guess we should just remove them. Actually,  only
+gnome-sensors-applet, libpanelappletmm and perl-Gnome2-PanelApplet are
+affected, and those packages are not required by any other packages.
+
+2011/8/27 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>:
+> Hi all,
+>
+> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ - this page reads:
+>
+> <<<
+> 66 broken dependencies. You can help!
+>>>>
+>
+> I've been trying to slowly resolve these dependencies, but been running into
+> some problems. Some of them were resolved by fixing this bug:
+>
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839
+>
+> But some of them are more tricky. For example, some packages still depend on
+> devel(libpanel-applet-2) which is a GNOME 2.x package that is no longer
+> available in the repository. What should we do about these GNOME 2.x packages
+> and their dependent packages?
+>
+> Regards,
+>
+>        Shlomi Fish
+>
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