[Mageia-dev] Fw: The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages

Sun Aug 28 09:23:27 CEST 2011

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:13:04 -0700
+Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
+
+> On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:57:20 am Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> > Begin forwarded message:
+> > 
+> > Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:47:37 +0300
+> > From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
+> > To: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
+> > Cc: thomas at btspuhler.com
+> > Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] The Hydra Nature of the horde-* packages
+> > 
+> > 
+> > Hi Thomas,
+> > 
+> > On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:31:45 -0700
+> > 
+> > Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
+> > > On Saturday, August 27, 2011 09:17:56 am Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> > > > Hi all,
+> > > > 
+> > > > I just rebuilt a few horde-* packages for which there were missing
+> > > > dependencies in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt
+> > > > , but now there are more that are not there:
+> > > > 
+> > > > horde-compress
+> > > > horde-datatree
+> > > > horde-history
+> > > > horde-secret
+> > > > horde-text-filter
+> > > > horde-token
+> > > > 
+> > > > This reminds me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
+> > > > where if you cut one of its heads, then two grow instead.
+> > > > 
+> > > > How can we resolve all the horde dependencies for good? Why do they
+> > > > reappear? What is the underlying problem?
+> > > > 
+> > > > I'm CCing it to mageia-sysadm because it may be a Sys admin problem.
+> > > > 
+> > > > Regards,
+> > > > 
+> > > > 	Shlomi Fish
+> > > 
+> > > These will be removed when the whole horde tree is done. The new names
+> > > are:]
+> > > 
+> > > php-pear-Horde.....
+> > > 
+> > > I am working on them, but there are a lot of deps to be built.
+> > 
+> > I don't understand exactly how these things are related? Why have we been
+> > having lots of broken horde-* dependencies for a long while? Why do horde-*
+> > packages disappear? Can we discuss this on IRC? I am "rindolf" there.
+> > 
+> > Regards,
+> > 
+> > 	Shlomi Fish
+> Why did you rebuild these? They have been obsoleted in i586 with php-pear-
+> Horde packages with mostly the same name. 
+> 
+
+Because they were marked as missing dependencies in:
+
+http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/missing-deps.i586.txt
+
+And I wanted to reduce the missing-deps list. But so far I see that I am
+running into many dead ends with reducing the missing-deps list, and so I'm not
+sure I'd like to continue with doing this anymore.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
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