Re: libxaw(7)-dev?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> May I ask Murphy? ..... No, I don't have *that* message. Sorry.
Never mind...
> 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?
You can remove it if you want, yes. The number of people who may benefit
from this B-D is quite small and replacing libxaw7-dev by libxaw-dev in
the B-D is trivial (and so is figuring it out if you don't have
libxaw7-dev available). So, the alternative dependency doesn't harm
much, but there is really no strong case for keeping it either.
> drachi:~# apt-cache show libxaw6-dev libxaw7-dev|grep Provi
> drachi:~#
Yes, it was probably a real package in pre-woody times, as shows this
changelog snippet quoted by Atsuhito in january:
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
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Florent
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