drop devicekit dependency

[Martin Pitt]

Binary package hint: packagekit-gnome

devicekit is deprepcated, devicekit-{power,disks} have been ported to use libgudev directly, and the package is not really necessary (it was a design oversight back then, when people did not realize that non-root applications could talk to udev).

packagekit-gnome is the only remaining build and binary dependency of libdevkit-gobject-dev/libdevkit-gobject0.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I checked the code, and it seems that it is just a superfluous dependency in configure.ac and debian/control:

$ grep -r '#include.*dev' .
./src/gpk-auto-refresh.c:#include <devkit-power-gobject/devicekit-power.h>

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I posted the patch upstream. Unfortunately I cannot apply it to Ubuntu right now, since the package fails to build:

gpk-check-update.c: In function ‘gpk_check_update_process_updates’:
gpk-check-update.c:932: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ca_gtk_context_get’
gpk-check-update.c:938: error: passing argument 1 of ‘ca_context_play’ makes pointer from integer without a cast

This is unrelated to dropping devicekit.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

For the record, this is my attempted debdiff. As already said, it doesn't build, though.

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

It's fixed upstream, can be fixed with bug #414239 (if the new version is approved):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit-gnome/+bug/414239/comments/2

:)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package packagekit-gnome - 2.28.0-0ubuntu1

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packagekit-gnome (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Savvas Radevic ]
  * debian/python-packagekit-gtk.install: Check
    debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/*-packages/
  * debian/control:
    + Drop devicekit build-dependency libdevkit-gobject-dev, fixed upstream
      (LP: #406426)
    + Add build-dependency libdbus-glib-1-dev
  * debian/patches:
    + defaults.patch: watch_active_transactions -> true (activates icon applet)
    + configure.patch: Removed GDK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE patch (fixed upstream)
    + fix_path_to_gstreamer_helper.patch: Use g_strcmp0 instead of egg_strequal
  * debian/docs: add AUTHORS

  [ Andrew Starr-Bochicchio ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #414239)
  * debian/patches/configure.patch
   - Drop completely. ARM build issue with cast-align fixed upstream.
  * Add debian/README.source explaining quilt patch system.
  * debian/control:
   - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3
   - Drop XS from Vcs fields.

 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:36:14 -0400