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Bug #2477

[conky]: not installable/upgradable - depends on blacklisted 'libxnvctrl'

bill-auger - over 4 years ago - . Updated almost 2 years ago.

Status:
fixed
Priority:
broken
Assignee:
% Done:

80%


Description

$ sudo pacman -Syu
....
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libxnvctrl", a dependency of "conky" 
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      conky

$ pacman -Si conky | grep Depends
Depends On      : glib2  lua  wireless_tools  libxdamage  libxinerama  libxft  imlib2  libxml2  libpulse  libxnvctrl

Related issues

Related to Packages - Freedom Issue #763: [libxnvctrl] only useful with nonfree softwarefixed2015-07-25

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#1

Updated by bill-auger over 4 years ago

#2

Updated by bill-auger over 4 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
#3

Updated by freemor almost 4 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 80
  • Status changed from confirmed to in progress

There is now a Conkey in [libre-testing] with Nvidia stuff removed.
x86_64 and i686 built fine and have been pushed. ARM failed in configure with missing curses libs. Need to track that down

People should definitely test and report back

#4

Updated by gap almost 2 years ago

We might also want to explicitly turn off BUILD_NVIDIA even though it's already disabled by default, in case it gets enabled by default in a later version.

#5

Updated by bill-auger almost 2 years ago

this ticket went stale; so i revisited it

this package had multiple policy issues also - the PKGBUILD lists only 'BSD' and 'GPL'; but according to the 'COPYING' file, there are more licenses in effect - the project was originally forked from a BSD-licensed code-base; but the primary license is GPLv3, with some (third-party?) parts under LGPLv2.1 and ISC

the upstream source only includes a BSD3 and a GPLv3 license; so presumably that was the basis of the existing license=() array - the BSD license does not get installed though, as it should, per arch policy

the issues:
  • 'GPL' should be 'GPL3'
  • the license=() array does not include 'LGPL' and 'ISC'
  • the package() function does not install the BSD or ISC licenses

in the upstream sources, the ISC license exists, but only as the header comment of the src/prss.{cc,h} files - i created the ISC license by running `head` on the prss.h file in prepare()

that was what i could determine by reading the COPYING file - however, when i looked into the code-base, i found at least one other third-party project, not mentioned in the COPYING file ('catch2'), which is boost-licensed - i only looked at a few files; but presuming that there is no additional third-party code included, the license=() array should be:

license=('Boost' 'BSD' 'GPL3' 'ISC' 'LGPL')

besides that, the arch package is built from an arbitrary VCS commit, despite that the pkgname does not end with -git, and pkgver is the latest upstream release version, for which the upstream has published a versioned source-ball

#6

Updated by bill-auger almost 2 years ago

  • Assignee set to bill-auger
#7

Updated by bill-auger almost 2 years ago

  • Status changed from in progress to fixed
#8

Updated by gap almost 2 years ago

- MAINTAINER_MODE is set to both ON and OFF in lines 52 and 65, respectively.
- Why is libxnvctrl left as a virtual dependency (lines 29, 30, 31, and 32) instead of being removed entirely?
- Odd indentation in the cmake -D options (lines 51-64, inclusive).

#9

Updated by bill-auger almost 2 years ago

that was intentional as a bug fix - i am re-doing this one -
the latest arch PKGBUILD has a better fix

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