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

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 at 22:46, Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

I do like the changes, they make a lot of sense to me as well and are very possible.
Just, do not forget about backward compatibility (in packaging as well).

> 
> > 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.

I'm looking forward to it. I'm glad all this get's sorted out once and for all and to a proper standard.

gbWilly