On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:11:05PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I'm planning to file bugs against any packages which specify > libxaw-dev in their Build-Depends. This is because this allows > compiling significantly differing packages within the constraints of > the Build-Depends, so they need to be tightened. I might object depending on what exactly you mean to do. > After a quick scan through the Sources file for the main section, the > packages affected include: > > acfax, awe, emacs20, exim, gnushogi, hanterm-classic, hanterm-xf, > imaze, isdnutils, jnethack, kdrill, mc, mowitz, nas, nethack, pixmap, > procmeter, procmeter3, siag, snake4, t1lib, twpsk, xbill, xcb, > xdvik-ja, xemacs21, xemeraldia, xengine, xfaces, xipmsg, xitalk, > xkeycaps, xmon, xmotd, xonix, xpaint, xpcd, xsysinfo, xtide, xwave, > youbin, zephyr If you mean that these Build-Depend on pure virtual packages, then they should be changed. If they work with Xaw 7, they should B-D on libxaw7-dev | lixaw-dev. If they don't work with Xaw 7, they should B-D lixaw6-dev | libxaw-dev. > Packages which specify libxaw7-dev|libxaw-dev, which should work for > autobuilders but still allows too much freedom for building the > packages locally: Wrong. > acm4, apmd, ghostview, groff, kinput2, kterm, seyon, tetex-bin, xbvl, > xruskb I object to this. If they work with Xaw 7, they should B-D on libxaw7-dev | lixaw-dev. If they don't work with Xaw 7, they should B-D lixaw6-dev | libxaw-dev. > This list doesn't include any old packages which might exist, which > still Build-Depend on xlib6g-dev but link against libxaw. It would be helpful if you filed bugs against these anyway so that I can drop the xlib6g* packages for the next Debian release. > Honestly, I can't figure out how this happened. I can't remember > there ever being a libxaw-dev package, It's a pure virtual package. > nor any time when there was only one package providing libxaw-dev. Implicitly, in potato, when Xaw6 was inside xlib6g. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux | sex was dirty. I said, "It is if branden@debian.org | you're doing it right." http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Woody Allen
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