[packman] [PM] songbird 1.1.1-0.pm.5 (openSUSE 11.1/x86_64)

[Toni]

Am Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
> Hi again,
>
> Toni schrieb:
> > Am Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 schrieb:
> >> Toni schrieb:
> >>> Am Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
> >>>> Hi Toni,
> >>>>
> >>>> I just had a short look at your songbird package.
> >>>>
> >>>> I see the package requires amongst others:
> >>>>
> >>>> libjemalloc.so()
> >>>> libmozjs.so()
> >>>> libsqlite3.so()
> >>>> libxpcom.so()
> >>>> libxul.so()
> >>>>
> >>>> but the package doesn't provide any of these. So you are depending on
> >>>> other packages (namely mozilla-xulrunner190 on recent openSUSE
> >>>> versions) without need.
> >>>
> >>> those libraries are "hidden" in the package, otherwise the songbird
> >>> package will be handled as a provider for those libs by the installers
> >>> and conflicts with existing xulrunner/taglib packages.
> >>> And when rpm installs this package it detects these libs internally. So
> >>> this is attended.
> >>
> >> Hmm, then I missed a change in RPM. Back when I was doing things like
> >> that it didn't notice the internal provides unless they were actually in
> >> the exported RPM provides.
> >> When did that change in RPM?
>
> Ok, you are wrong. I just verified with a test openSUSE 11.1
> installation. If no package is installed which actually exports the
> stuff above RPM refuses to install your songbird package because of
> these missing dependencies.
> As I wrote it's a bug that you require other packages while you don't
> need to.
> Please fix that. (I could give you some advice on that since I have some
> experience with that stuff)
yes, please give me some advices.

> >>>> You are also delivering Mozilla's NSPR and NSS libraries which is not
> >>>> exactly an issue but could be a thing to improve.
> >>>
> >>> read the comments in the spec file:
> >>> # Songbird requires an upstream patched xulrunner and taglib to
> >>> function properly.
> >>>
> >>> And as long upstream insists in having a own private xulrunner version
> >>> nad taglib version, this is the onlypossibility to provide this
> >>> package. They even don't fix known issues in the emebedded xulrunner
> >>> package.
> >>>
> >>> Formerly they needed also a complete internal gstreamer framework .....
> >>> So things are getting better with each release.
> >>
> >> That all has nothing to do with NSPR and NSS though ;-)
> >
> > songbird is only compilable and working with the sources from the
> > songbird-vendor tarball. xulrunner was a example, same for the nspr and
> > nss.
> >
> > http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds
> >
> > If you want a songbird linked against system installed libraries, file a
> > bug to songbird upstream ...
> > I would also prefer such a package as it safes a lot of patching and
> > compile time for me and other package providers.
>
> It was just a suggestion. No need to argue about. I can't find any
> reference that Songbird patches NSPR or NSS for anything though and that
> would make it possible to use system provided libs but no worries.
>
>
> Wolfgang



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have fun
Toni