Re: Processed: libxaw-dev is long gone

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:48:54PM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
>> 
>> > severity 169969 serious
>> Bug#169969: acfax: Pure virtual build-depends on libxaw-dev
>> Severity set to `serious'.
>> 
>> > severity 170006 serious
>> Bug#170006: emacs20: Pure virtual build-depends on libxaw-dev
>> Severity set to `serious'.
>
> Why is a pure virtual build-depends a serious bug?
> Could you please point out the section of policy?
>
>
> We've had this discussion before (in #169969) and you didn't convince
> me.

The problem now is that there isn't any libxaw-dev virtual package at
all any more.  I retitled the bugs also, to reflect this fact.
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