openbve 1.2.0.3 can't be installed due to unresolvable dependencies

Looks like some "clever" packager included self-excluding dependencies (different versions of one package)

Duplicate as this will need repackaging anyway.

Instead of changing status or importance, is anyone trying to resolve this or is openbve definitively dead under karmic. That'd be a real pity. Is it better to play with an unlegal MSTS (wich is working on any version of win-doze) or is Linux-Debian-Ubuntu-Karmic-Koala a real good OS ? anyway, isn't it strange to let openbve appear in synaptic, while it bugs...?

Philippe from Lyon in France

This bug is TOO ANONY!
Two months have passed, no one can fix it?

The install problem appears not to be in the openbve package source, whose dependencies look sane on inspection. The weird dependencies are put in by Debian's automated Mono build process.

I tried to build the package from source and found the libtaoframework-opengl3.0-cil library from Karmic to be incompatible with openbve-1.2.0.3 . It builds with 2.0 from Jaunty, but doesn't run properly when built that way (at least on my machine it doesn't, but I probably got what I asked for by trying such a hack in the first place).

For this to work, openbve probably needs to be updated to be compatible with libtaoframework-opengl3.0-cil, which has to happen upstream.

I get different unresolvable dependencies:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  openbve: Depends: libtaoframework-openal1.1-cil (< 2.0.0.svn20071028) but 2.1.svn20090801-1build1 is to be installed
           Depends: libtaoframework-opengl2.1-cil (>= 2.0.0.svn20071027) but it is not installable
           Depends: libtaoframework-opengl2.1-cil (< 2.0.0.svn20071028) but it is not installable
           Depends: libtaoframework-sdl1.2-cil (< 2.0.0.svn20071028) but 2.1.svn20090801-1build1 is to be installed

9.10

I have tried adjusting the package to use the new versions of the packages. My new version installs fine, but when openbve is executed, I get a long error message (attached). Looks like it's something to do with Tao SDL (?).

It's Mono/CLR attempt to ensure /exactly/ linking against a specific library
version... (version < eleven) && (version >= ten). I guess perhaps a
library rebuild needs to trigger a rebuild of all depended packages.

This bug was fixed in the package openbve - 1.2.4.1-0ubuntu1

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openbve (1.2.4.1-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream stable version (1.2.4.1) (LP: #444934)
    fixes (LP: #419523) (LP: #419525) (LP: #419530) (LP: #444462)
  * changelog.html: update (1.2.3.3)
 -- Paul Sladen <email address hidden> Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:58:00 +0000

My brain may be a little slow here but... are you saying a fix has been released for Lucid but NOT Karmic? I note that in Karmic I still have the same conflict of dependencies... will a fix be released for Karmic or do we have to wait for Lucid?

Many thanks
Nick Roberts

Accepted openbve into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

According to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openbve/1.2.0.3-0ubuntu1build2/+build/1448166 , the new version for Karmic won't build, because it still depends on libtaoframework-opengl2.1-cil, which has been replaced by libtaoframework-opengl3.0-cil in Karmic. The compiler is stuck on "dependency wait".

According to the building status, the updated version still depends on libtaoframework-opengl2.1-cil, which has been replaced by libtaoframework-opengl3.0-cil in karmic, and therefore won't build (stuck on "dependency wait")

Why not build a new version(1.2.4.4)? It can solve dependency problem.

1.2.4.* is a development release (1.2.3.3 is latest stable), and upstream have expressed a preference that we only ship stable releases. 1.2.4.* also changed the supported formats, so the default bve-route and bve-train would need rebuilding.

I had been hoping to backport a minimal fix for the original build issues but my recollection is that there are Tao and (perhaps) Mono issues aswell---which explains why it all broke later in the development cycle.

The switch to libtaoframework-opengl3.0 requires backports a couple of nominal minor fixes. Liu: are you happy to test on Karmic if I whip something up?

This game, which I quite enjoyed on 9.04 has been non functional the entire 9.10 cycle. If it won't/can't be fixed, shouldn't the package be removed from the distribution ?.

hope it will really work this time on lucid !

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 03:19 +0000, PascalCavy wrote:
> hope it will really work this time on lucid !
>

I installed the beta of Lucid yesterday, and can confirm OpenBVE is
working (though frame rate is a little slow).

I removed the karmic-proposed package, since it never built, and there was no recent progress to fix it.