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Re: Future direction of Debian XFree86 packaging (was: 4.3.0 progress / desire to help)



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.

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Daniel Stone 	     <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au>             <dstone@kde.org>
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