RE: Giving away lesstif

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

> The most thorny packaging problem is not mentioned in the bug tracking
> system.  Some months ago, lesstif broke binary compatibility, and I
> started building it with "--back-compat" to avoid breaking every
> lesstif program on every Debian system.  Unfortunately, this makes
> Debian's lesstif libraries incompatible with the RPMs built by the
> LessTif project.  LessTif's soname (libXm.so.1) is pretty much locked
> in by its desire for source compatibility with Motif and its use of
> libtool, and I see no easy way out.

Then you suck it up and do like the GTK package users did -- recompile,
recompile, recompile.  At least the Lesstif people have a reason for not moving
their soname (=