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Re: Build Dependencies of tetex-bin



On 28.01.04 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:
> > On 27.01.04 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:

Hi all,

> > > You should note that the Build-Depends is libxaw7-dev |
> > > libxaw-dev, and libxaw7-dev *is* available in unstable (and
> > > testing).
> > > 
> > Yes, I did and I've seen that. 
> 
> FYI.
> As far as I checked, there is no libxaw-dev even in woody.
> 
> I guess porting the latest tetex-bin to potato might be
> practically very difficult.
> 
> I don't know a history of libxaw-dev but, in changelog.Debian 
> of libxaw7-dev I found;
> 
> xfree86 (4.2.1-14) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   * Make libxaw6-dev and libxaw7-dev conflict with and replace libxaw-dev (<<
>     4.0.3); the latter existed as a real package in pre-woody unstable, and
>     this permits smooth upgrades from such systems.
>     - debian/control
> 
>  -- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:29:52 -0500
> 
Even in woody:

drachi:[hille] >apt-cache show libxaw-dev
drachi:[hille] >

So, what to do? Should we contact Branden about that issue?

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