Bug#322083: openoffice.org-bin: Please switch to libxaw8

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:51:29PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>...
> Hi,

Hi Rene,

> Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 01:55 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > Can you switch from libxaw7 to the more recent libxaw8?
> 
> Is there a real reason for this except it being more recent?

no, there is no real reason, except that it is more recent and compiles 
and runs fine for me.

> $ dchroot -c unstable grep-available -FDepends libxaw7 -sPackage | grep 
> Package\: | wc -l
> [ package list snipped, too long ]
> 
> $ dchroot -c unstable grep-available -FDepends libxaw8 -sPackage
> (unstable) grep-available -FDepends libxaw8 -sPackage
> Package: xbase-clients
> Package: xterm
> Package: xdm
> 
> Only X.org packages itself depend on libxaw8...

You missed aewm.  ;-)

> And interestingly Ubuntu doesn't ship libxaw8 at all which may have a reason 
> we both don't know...

I don't know.
I've Cc'ed the Debian X11 maintainers who should know better.

> Regards,
> 
> Rene

cu
Adrian

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