Re: xfig and fvwm in "unstable" tree

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

Hello Douglas

  Doug> Yes.  Just get the sources for xfig from the source tree, expand them
  Doug> and run make install

Or say	
	./debian.rules binary
	dpkg -i ../<package-just-built>

  Doug> Alternatively, is there a mechanism under which the xpm4.7 package
  Doug> can claim to provide xpm?

Rebuilt it from the Debian sources and add a "Provides: xpm" in it's
debian.control file could do that for you. You might still have binaries that
require the other, older lib, though.

Best,

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd