On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 23:01:39 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > We have not started talking to the maintainers of packages depending on > lesstif2 (other than a message to d-devel [1]), as I wanted to have the > way clear before that. Graham Inggs has tested building all the reverse > dependencies [2], though. > > So my question basically is, what would be the most appropriate order to > do things? > > My proposal would be (with your approval) to just get motif into > unstable/main and start converting the dependencies with the help of > their maintainers (the libraries can coexist). Because the -dev package > name has to change all build dependencies would have to get a > source-full update. I would have liked to stage everything in > experimental, but due to this (quoted from ftp-master) nasty dak bug, > that would leave unstable (non-free) without (open-)motif. > Do we know how many of the lesstif2 reverse dependencies are libraries whose ABI would change if rebuilt with motif instead? Cheers, Julien
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