libbeagle != beagle #6
Closed
opened 5 years ago by Ghost
·
10 comments
No Label
No Assignees
3 Participants
Notifications
Due Date
No due date set.
Dependencies
No dependencies set.
Reference: TDE/kerry#6
Loading…
Reference in new issue
There is no content yet.
Delete Branch '%!s(<nil>)'
Deleting a branch is permanent. It CANNOT be undone. Continue?
Kerry is not working on my system because there is no beagle daemon (beagled) to start with.
Beagled as well as other executables (beagle-config, beagle-query, beagle-status) are provided by the beagle source: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/beagle
Libbeagle is meant to work with beagle, but in order to build beagle you need the mono runtime, then you need ndesk-dbus, then ndesk-dbus-glib, etc.
Do you provide beagle in Debian and its dependencies?
As far as I know, the Beagle project is dead – there are no packages for the Beagle demon in Debian / Ubuntu. In the build-deps for Debianu / Ubuntu we only maintan libbeagle, but as you rightly pointed out, it doesn't seem to be sufficient.
Because the Beagle project is created in Mono, we certainly don't want to maintain it as additional build-deps. Therefore, I believe the Kerry application is suitable for removal.
This will set up things with bugzilla bug: 2331 then.
It seems that Tracker could be considered as a successor to Beagle and tdeio-find could serve here instead of Kerry.
Currently libbeagle cannot be built on Debian testing (Bullseye) because the GTK2 library has been removed from the distribution. We must either disable python-beagle in libbeagle, which is dependent on pygtk, or completely stop building libbeagle and kerry.
Since kerry is unusable without a beagle demon, and nobody minds it so far, nobody seems to be using kerry. Therefore, nothing should prevent drop kerry and libbeagle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHue-HaXXzg
I agree with Slavek above that we can drop libbeagle and kerry since it seems not used/useful anymore.
The question is whether to drop it from R14.0.8 or from R14.1.0
In any case, I stopped building libbeagle and kerry for Bullseye and SID for both master and r14.0.x.
The question is whether to provide packages for other versions of distributions, although none of them provides a beagle daemon => kerry cannot work anyway. Therefore, I do not see a problem when we want to drop kerry even for the r14.0.x branch.
In that case let's drop kerry and libbeagle for R14.0.x too and for all distros.
In that case let's drop kerry and libbeagle for R14.0.x too and for all distros.
kerry removed from TDE.