Re: libxaw(7)-dev?
On 16.03.04 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> > I know, we had a similar issue a few days ago. Yesterday I had a
> > look at that quality pages of tetex-bin. I could read, that
> > tetex-bin has a build-Depend on libxaw7-dev | libxaw-dev .
> > libxaw-dev isn't available on any architecture. Perhaps we should
> > take it out. I don't know if it is still provided by libxaw7-dev.
>
> My last mail on the issue (<87smi04dub.fsf@florent.maison> since
> you have the whole -tetex-maint archive on your hard disk ;-)
>
May I ask Murphy? ..... No, I don't have *that* message. Sorry.
> was in favour of letting the B-D for sarge and remove it later, the
> rationale being that it enhances tetex-bin's "portability".
>
Well, certainly it does. So we could leave the removal to post-sarge.
To fulfil strictly the B-D on woody is actually quite hard. Should I
open a wishlist-bug about the removal?
> However, this view is controversial: some people prefer having
> strict Build-Depends in order to enhance the package's
> reproducibility (however, I don't think they B-D on exact versions
> of every package, so this argument clearly has its limits).
>
libxaw-dev is neither provided by libxaw6-dev nor by libxaw7-dev.
drachi:~# apt-cache show libxaw6-dev libxaw7-dev|grep Provi
drachi:~#
H.
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