Re: dselect is a liar
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > So lyx is indeed out of date on powerpc, probably because it's in the
> > contrib section and the autobuilders don't always keep religiously up to
> > date with that.
>
> As a maintainer of several contrib packages that depend on XForms, I can
> say that autobuilders _don't_ process contrib at all. I've had to ask
> admins to temporarily install libforms-dev so that I could build the
> packages on non-i386 arches; some of them don't want to. I've had to file
> many bugs against ftp.debian.org to get old versions of non-i386 binary
> packages deleted from the archive to let packages migrate to testing. It a
> big pain. Maintaining a contrib package is more work than maintaining a
> non-free one! I don't recommend it.
>
> Hopefully, this will end soon. XForms is _supposed_ to become free very
> soon. Then lyx will be in main too, and powerpc will be uptodate.
Thank God. I have one XForms-dependent package too (not an important one
by any stretch of the imagination, though), and had to do the same thing
for various architectures. I was actually thinking about orphaning it in
favour of somebody who had time to convert it to FLTK.
Do you think it'll be free before optional packages freeze for woody?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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