On 14/01/2012 22:30, Mike Howard wrote:
> On 14/01/2012 22:22, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>> I'm a little confused now so please bear with me, or just ignore me as
>>> you choose :)
>>>
>>> I'm not at all sure where libart comes into my equation. I have
>>> libart-2.0-2&  libart-2.0-dev installed on my system, as debs, but  not
>>> libart-lgpl. Nor does libart-lgpl appear in the stable sources, except
>>> as an almost empty sub-folder of konstruct/libs or in apt on either
>>> Squeeze or Wheezy.
>>>
>>> So, as a layman, what am I missing? I did say I was confused.
>> libart-2.0-2 is what you want installed, but it should be installed from
>> the link that I posted earlier in this thread.  Older versions of this
>> package can cause a SIGABRT (a crash in layman's terms) due to a bug in
>> this library.
>>
>>>    From a Wheezy point of view, yes, it's not marked as stable, but
>>> waiting for debian stable is like waiting for a bus on a Sunday.
>>> Besides, having experienced this build from source of 3.5.13, being
>>> marked as stable doesn't mean it really is stable. No insult or slight
>>> intended :)
>> None taken.  I can only say that in my experience, Squeeze is rock solid
>> (with TDE as well), whereas Wheezy won't even compile TDE completely on
>> armel due to mysterious segfaults in (non-TDE) core libraries.
>> Additionally, Wheezy has some other problems that manifest as a 
>> lockup of
>> build chroots.  I have had it with Wheezy for now and won't support 
>> TDE on
>> Wheezy until Debian at least has the guts to mark it stable. :-)
>>
Sorry, forgot to say, on amd64, TDE, from stable has compiled (after 
sorting minor issues) and apart from the kicker crash is fine, or at 
least appears so for now. As for armel issues, from a user point of view 
I have never used a desktop environment on an ARM linux system but I 
would love to see see TDE on ARM.

Cheers,

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