Re: Proposal: Virtual package motif, motif-dev
Tille, Andreas <TilleA@rki.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Is this a Debian package? If so, you can't have a situation where it will
> ~> apt-cache search libmotif
> libmotif - Open Motif - shared libraries
> libmotif-dbg - Open Motif - debug libraries
> libmotif-dev - Open Motif - development files
I wasn't talking about libmotif, but the program that you're trying to
compile.
> LessTif, made by the Hungry Programmers, is a free (LGPL-ed) version of
> OSF/Motif; it aims ultimately at binary compatibility with Motif 1.2.
> If it claims to be binary compatible it should really give an alternative
> to programs linked against motif 1.2. For sure, the Open Motif version
> in Debian is:
> Source: openmotif
> Version: 2.1.30-5
You can only use virtual packages here if binary compatibility were
guaranteed. Unfortunately it is not. In fact, not so long ago, lesstif
had to change its own API.
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