Re: Xinerama fix
>>>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:19:42 +0200,
>>>>> "CM" == Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
CM> Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:
>> Ok, here is the Xinerama fix for the metacity package (the same fix
>> should probably be applied to some other packages as well):
CM> This fix shouldn't go in the metacity package but instead in the
CM> gtk2.0 package. libgtk2.0-dev should depends on xlibs-pic
CM> (xlibs-static-pic doesn't exist) otherwise all applications using
CM> xinerama doesn't work.
CM> Also a hack to fix a bug I've filed should be reverted (can't find the
CM> bug number and the hack).
Why is this dependency required? xlibs-pic contains only
static libraries. and it is actually linked statically. so
as you reported before, if .la requires such dependency, a
bug which should be fixed is that, but not the dependency
for -dev package.
If any applications requires Xinerama directly, those
packages should be fixed. plus, library name is
different. even if libgtk2.0-dev depends on xlibs-pic (or
xlibs-static-pic), such applications will links non-pic
version. the patch will be required anyway.
I think the unnecessary dependencies should not be added.
Regards,
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