Art Edwards <edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil> writes:
> I have been writing to the list about two applications that are so
> broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the box pretty
> useless.
From the look of things, we are talking about a single bug in a single
library. So the system is hardly "useless". We just need to fix that
bug.
Please start by filing a bug report. I can't see anything here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=lesstif2
A new version was released a month ago, but hasn't yet been packaged.
It may be that it has already been found and fixed upstream.
http://www.lesstif.org/ReleaseNotes.html
You could try building it yourself to find out.
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> Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data
> display tool (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that
> the 64-bit version is ready for testing. It would be very nice if
> you, and other distro's, were to put appropriate caveats on the
> websites, saying that 64-bit is really not ready for the prime-time
> desktop. That way, we could make better purchasing decisions.
I don't think anyone is being dishonest, but you are exaggerating the
seriousness of the situation. Once a bug is found, please report it
and it will get fixed. It can't be fixed if the maintainer is not
made aware that there is a problem.
Regards,
Roger
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