On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 12:20:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > 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. Yeah. > > 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 ? Because xlibs-pic is a deprecated package name, and I don't want to encourage use of it. While we're bumping versions from 4.2 to 4.3 anyway, might as well try to get people to make this jump. xlibs-pic is a nasty hack, and the sooner it dies, the better. I'm not going to aid its survival. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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