Re: lesstif1 -> lesstif2 migration

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Kai Hendry <hendry@iki.fi> writes:

> As a new maintainer task from Moritz Muehlenhoff I'm aiming to get the
> upstream unmaintained and security prone lesstif1 removed from Debian.
>
> Lesstif1 is superseded by lesstif2.
>
>
> The 22 affected packages are as follows:
>
>   clustalx
>   xtel
>   xsol
>   xmpi
>   xmcd
>   twpsk
>   twclock
>   stardic
>   sqsh
>   sciplot1
>   plan
>   njplot
>   ncbi-tools-x11
>   libvibrant6
>   libinventor0
>   lesstif-dev
>   inventor-demo
>   inventor-clients
>   imaze-lesstif
>   geomview
>   elk
>   electric
>
> The transition for packages is to instead build against lesstif2-dev.
> I've already looked into a couple of affected packages and the
> transition should be straightforward.
>
> I've let lesstif1 maintainer Sam Hocevar know last week. Next I hope to
> announce the transition on debian-devel and file bugs. I plan to NMU
> several of these packages.
>
> Best wishes,

Is it neccessary to create a lesstiff2-dev? Did the API (not ABI)
change?

MfG
        Goswin