Re: [arch-general] libsoup 2.26.0-1 dependencies in [testing]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:17 +0200, JM wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:

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On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:48 +0200, JM wrote:

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Hello,

I noticed that libsoup in [testing] depends on gconf, is that really necessary? Libsoup is a dependency for some desktop-agnostic applications such as Midori (through its dependency on libwebkit) or hardinfo (currently in AUR).

Regards, JM

This is a temporary bugfix. At this moment the libproxy code in libsoup is unstable, so the libsoup developers decided to disable libproxy and use gconf instead for proxy detection. The changelog states that it's a temporary solution that will be worked out for 2.26.0. With 2.26.1, the dependencies will be the same as we had with the 2.25.x release which was in testing for a while.

libsoup 2.26.1-1 still carries the dependency on gconf. Has the situation changed?

Regards, JM

No it hasn't, as this needs to be fixed inside libproxy. Libproxy is not threadsafe when it calls into gconf, so libsoup calls into GConf itself to get the proxy information and passes the information to libproxy. Until libproxy is fixed to do threadsafe calls into GConf, the dependency on GConf will stay.

I mistakenly assumed that the problem had lied within libsoup not libproxy. Thanks for clarifying that. Regards, JM