Bug#349519: libxaw7-dev: libxpm4-dev virtual package should be provided by libxpm-dev not libxaw*-dev
Package: libxaw7-dev, libxaw8-dev, libxpm-dev
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: minor
Hello,
For some reason the libxpm4-dev virtual package is Provided by
libxaw7-dev and libxaw8-dev, not by the libxpm-dev package as one would
expect. (Indeed, one would expect libxpm4-dev to be the real package
and libxpm-dev to be the virtual package, not vice versa! I suppose
that would be much more difficult to transition correctly to though.)
I asked why this strange state of affairs was the case at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/01/msg00584.html
but did not receive any answer, so am filing this bug. Even if
there is a good reason for this, it ought to be documented somewhere
(maybe in the relevant package descriptions) since it causes unexpected
behavior for people who put libxpm4-dev in their Build-Depends.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages libxaw7-dev depends on:
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii libice-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library deve
ii libsm-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxp-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library development files
ii libxt-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics development f
ii x-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X protocol development files
libxaw7-dev recommends no packages.
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