Bug#233818: Also a problem for WordPerfect 8 users
(cc:ing the submitters of the bugs merged with this one)
WordPerfect 8 works with xlib6, xpm4.7 and libc5. Until release 4.3
of xfree86 I had these installed and marked "hold" and I had no
problem. Now I have installed xlibs 4.3.0 which Conflicts with xlib6,
forcing it off my system. I don't immediately see the reason for
this. xlib6 installs files in /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/ so there is no
pathname collision with anything in current xfree86 packages. When
I remove (but don't purge) xlibs and install xlib6 my system works
perfectly again.
> I'd really like to force them off the system.
Why?
> Would it be so awful to rebuild some of these packages that haven't
> been updated since potato?
You mean rename and rebuild xlib6 and stick it in the oldlibs section?
That would be fine with me, but I would like to know why we have to
do that.
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Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
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