Re: Future direction of Debian XFree86 packaging (was: 4.3.0 progress / desire to help)
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:07:24PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:19:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > your packages don't include xlibs-pic, which make libxosd-dev and libxosd2
> > uninstallable. I am not entirely sure why the libxosd packages depend on
> > xlibs-pic and not xlibs, so it could simply be problem during the build
> > of it.
>
> All the static libraries in my build of XFree86 are built -fPIC, whereas
> they aren't by default in 4.2.1 - hence xlibs-pic. xlibs-pic went away
> in 4.3.0; if you want to use libxosd2, I suggest recompiling it against
> 4.3.0.
Ok, i suppose a bug should be filled against libxosd once 4.3.0 reach
the archive, so that it will get rebuilt.
> Nothing I can do. And no, I'm not going to make an xlibs-pic package,
> virtual or otherwise.
Why ? Would the proper solution not be for xlibs to provide xlibs-pic ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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