Bug#241090: libxaw-dev as B-D?
On 09.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi all,
> > I had a look at the 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. libxaw-dev is not provided
> > neither by libxaw7-dev nor by libxaw6-dev any more.
> > Perhaps we should take it out. That should be done, after the sarge
> > release.
>
> Even in woody we do have libxaw7-dev (which provides libxaw-dev).
> While it's a worthwile goal to try to support upgrades from potato,
> I think caring for backports to potato is a waste of effort, and
> this is a _build_depends. Therefore I would say we can take it out
> at once, can't we?
>
We could leave it in just for the case, that anybody want to make a
backport. Dunno, if that will run smoothly on potato.
> Furthermore, we don't really know whether current xdvi versions
> really compile and run painlessly with libxaws6-dev, which also
> provides libxaw-dev.
>
I've just replaced libxaw7-dev by libxaw6-dev and could compile and
run xdvi using libxaw6. So we could replace libxaw-dev by libxaw6-dev
and everything is fine.
Hilmar
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