Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8
clone 365714 -1
reassign -1 xaw3dg-dev
retitle -1 Depends on libxaw8-dev and breaks building packages
thanks
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>> My question is now whether to switch away from libxaw8 is a wishlist
>> issue or in fact a fixed plan? What's the appropriate severity for
>> "drop libxaw8" bugs, and what should maintainers do?
>
> libxaw8 is abandoned upstream and there are no plans to fix it for the Xorg7
> transition. This is a >= serious bug for any package still build-depending
> on libxaw8-dev, as they FTBFS and this isn't going to be fixed on the xaw8
> side.
Oh, that's much clearer and more severe than I expected. Francesco,
will you be able to fix that soon, so that emacs21 can be built again
(and probably others?).
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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