Bug#235885: xlib6g from stable cannot be installed on unstable after upgrade to XFree86 4.3
Andreas Bach Aaen <abach@mail1.stofanet.dk> wrote:
> Fredag den 5. marts 2004 23:08 skrev Chris Waters:
>> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:09:41PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> > You are right, it does not work, because xlibs in sid conflicts
>> > with xlib6g. However I think rebuilding the netscape source
>> > package on sid would work.
>> As would installing a local (non-Debian) version of Netscape, which
>> is what most people do with software that's not supported by
>> Debian. I'm not sure why anyone in Debian should go out of their
>> way to support software that is explicitly no longer supported by
>> Debian.
> A deb-package outside Debian that brings Netscape 4.7x would be just
> fine for me - and a good compromise. A new entry on apt-get.org?
I have invested 15 minutes rebuilding the netscape* packages (apt-get
source, dch -i, s/xlib6g/xlibs/ in the Build-Depends line) from woody.
deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/netscape4sid/ sid/
Completely untested because I do not use netscape, I just was wondering
whether it was difficult..
cu andreas
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