Re: Houston, we do seem to have a problem on OSB!!

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 18/12/2024 à 22:46, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 18/12/2024 à 22:40, gbWilly a écrit :
> > The mail of PICCORO McKAY Lenz  on breaking stuff kind a got me 
> > wondering what was going on. I knew that my own packages where
> > installing to breaking things, even upgrading from debian official
> > was possible, be it in a few steps.
> >
> > ...
>
> Here is my answer on GitLab:
>
> First, thanks a lot for your precious help.
>
> > I didn't notice the changes you made (I do like them, was wondering
> > where x11 and wayland had gone to), but it results in seriously
> > breaking stuff, both upgrading from previous ubuntu ppa as official
> > completely breaks the system when it comes to gambas. I couldn't
> > even remove gambas anymore and was stuck between two versions
> > installed!! Had to delete the vm.
>
> Sorry for that. I just tried to make the same packages in every distro.
> The integration of x11 and wayland package inside their main GUI
> component comes from RPM or ArchLinux packaging. I found that it makes
> sense, as a GUI component is unusable without its X11 or wayland part.
>
> > P.S. It also broke installing packages of applications made in
> > gambas3-ide before this osb version, as they might depend on stuff
> > like qt5-ext, that doesn't exist as a package anymore!!
>
> This is an error, I don't want to do that. We must have one package for
> each Gambas component that is explicitly checkable, except those that
> are included in the runtime package (it's just an exception list inside
> the IDE). I will check all that stuff again.
>
> Regards,

Moreover, yes, when some packages are merged, we must tell that the new 
package provides the merged ones, so that an update does not break.

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Benoît Minisini.