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Monday, May 5, 2008

Big Debian E17 overhaul

As the PkgE Team is working hard to get E17 into Debian/experimental, I took some time to merge most of their packaging goodness into the debian/ folders of the enlightenment CVS tree. As a result the repository at debian.alphagemini.org now features higher consistency regarding package names and dependencies.
The major change involved renaming of -dev, -dbg and -bin packages of all libraries which now look like libfoo-dev instead of libfoo0-dev. The second change was the package name of enlightenment itself which is now available as e17. Furthermore libe-dbus is now called libedbus. libeet1 is now available from the official Debian repositories as well and should be compatible with the rest of the packages.
Due to all these changes installations will most probably break upon upgrade which can be prevented by uninstalling all previous packages from this repository beforehand. Afterwards a regular

apt-get install e17 emodules-all
should do the rest.

Apart from the above changes there are also some additions, namely three new emodules (execwatch, iiirk and notification) as well as the edje editor.

The AMD64 port will be updated accordingly as soon as the i386 port works flawlessly.

Thanks a lot to Guillaume, Sedat and Vit for reporting bugs and suggestions, and of course to the PkgE-Team for providing the package descriptions.

Further information and instructions can be found here.

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