Comment 5 for bug 276047

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Derek White (d-man97) wrote :

About the trunk...it seems to be doing A LOT more than any other trunk/PPA has done in the past.
Can you verify this for me?

To Be Removed:
avant-window-navigator, avant-window-navigator-data, awn-applets-c-core, awn-applets-c-extras, awn-applets-python-core, awn-applets-python-extras, awn-manager, libawn-extras0, libawn0, python-awn, python-awn-extras, python-awnlib.

That seems fine.

But this is just weird...
To Be Installed:
avant-window-navigator-data-trunk, avant-window-navigator-trunk, awn-extras-applets-trunk, awn-manager-trunk, libawn0-trunk, libgda3-3, libgda3-bin, libgda3-common, libgdl-1-0, libgdl-1-common, libglib2.0-dev, libvala0, libwebkit-1.0-1, python-awn-trunk, python-dateutil, python-gnome2-extras, python-sqlalchemy, python-xlib, vala-awn-trunk, valac.

12 to 20...Why all the extra programs? Why are some applet packages seemingly missing? Will I lose functionality by upgrading? Why does it need -dev packages? What is valac and why do you need to install a compiler to run applets? This is completely atypical of ALL other trunks/PPA's I have used. There is usually a 1:1 replacement. And, I am taking out 2 libs and installing like 10, wtf! Are these crazy dependencies going to stay for final (seems like bloat)?

The packages libwebkit-1.0-1 and libglib2.0-dev are from intrepid-updates, is this OK?

Also concerning was the PGP key...it was created 1/19/2009...but the PPA was started at least in/before Jan 2008...I thought launchpad assigned keys when you create the PPA...why is this one so new when the PPA is so old?

P.S. - The forum thread linked to in the PPA instructions is way out-dated and helped zero.
P.P.S. - I hate the 2 months before a new Ubuntu comes out...NOTHING gets updates. They just want you to wait for the next release, but all the devs (you guys) are receiving old bugs from packages that haven't been updated unless the end-user (me) goes through all these hoops. It sucks. Royally. For everyone.