Bug#345693: kdemultimedia: superfluous build-dependency on libxaw8-dev

[Andreas Ferber <af@chaos-agency.de>]

Package: kdemultimedia
Version: 3.5.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental

Hello there,

while doing a backport of KDE 3.5.0 to Sarge, I came across the
build-depency on libxaw8-dev. Wondering what it was about, I did a
grep in the source tree for Xaw, and found that the only places it is
still mentioned are in some comments.

% grep -ri xaw .
Binary file ./doc/artsbuilder/index.cache.bz2 matches
./admin/acinclude.m4.in:# Check for libraries that X11R6 Xt/Xaw programs need.
./configure:# Check for libraries that X11R6 Xt/Xaw programs need.
./noatun/modules/kjofol-skin/kjloader.cpp:                NET::WMState|NET::XAWMState|NET::WMDesktop);
./acinclude.m4:# Check for libraries that X11R6 Xt/Xaw programs need.
./debian/changelog:    default Xaw, Ncurses, and Slang.

Checking the changelog it seems that the depency is left over from the
KDE 2.x days, dutifully updated with each new Xaw version ;-)

AFAICS the dependency can simply be dropped, saving backporters one
minor stumbling block.

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (150, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-squashfs-toshiba
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)