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

[JM]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:17 +0200, JM wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:48 +0200, JM wrote:
>> >> 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