On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 03:21:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:04:42PM +0100, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> > Since installing XFree86 4.0.1, several of the pacakges on my computer became
> > unistallable without using 'dpkg --force depends' due to them depending on
> > 'xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0)' instead of 'libxpm4'.
> >
> > A quick grep of /var/lib/dpkg/available reveals 55 packages that this will
> > affect. List of these is attached.
> >
> > Will/Can this be fixed on the XFree86 side, or should 55 bugs be filed?
>
> If you wish, you can file 55 wishlist bugs (to maintonly@bugs, of course)
> asking the maintainers to get the latest xpm4g{,-dev} (the one in potato)
> and recompile their packages against it.
What Josip said. Go forth and file bugs. Slaughter the infidel!
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