[Mageia-dev] Last few packages with old udev dep... aka drop chromium-browser-unstable?

Wed Jul 11 10:07:44 CEST 2012

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> Hi Guys,
+>
+> There are a couple packages left still needing the old udev library and
+> I'd like to get them sorted now.
+>
+> [colin at jimmy ~]$ urpmq --whatrequires lib64udev0 libudev0
+> chromium-browser-unstable
+> chromium-browser-unstable
+> enna
+> enna
+> lib64udev0
+> lib64zypp901
+> libmyth0.24
+> libudev0
+> libzypp901
+>
+>
+> All the libs can be ignored as they are all no longer needed, so it's
+> just enna and chromium-browser-unstable.
+>
+> For enna, it needs fixes for (I think) new GCC or newer libvalhalla, so
+> it would be great if someone could look at that. I'm not familiar with
+> the project, but I did find some references that it's more or less
+> deprecated now (Geebox seems to have switched to xbmc as it's primary
+> frontend:
+> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/geexbox-devel/VC3WFx2h9ws)
+>
+> For chromium-browser-unstable I propose we just drop it. We can keep the
+> -stable chromium named as it is just now although I would personally
+> prefer to see it just called "chromium-browser" (as no other package has
+> this strange naming policy and arguably many of them could if we shipped
+> two versions). I don't see a problem re-introducing an -unstable variant
+> again in the future, but unless someone is actively maintaining it it's
+> arguably just getting in the way.
+>
+> Thoughts?
+>
+> (CC'ed TV as he has been the most frequent committed to -unstable of late)
+>
+> Col
+
+i will update it soon ( today i hope )
+