tetex-bin dropping xaw8 (was: xaw8)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> wrote:

>    Because xaw8 is functionally equivalent to xaw7 in every way except for
> the xprint suppot, if your app does not need this specific feature then you
> can safely depend on xaw7, leaving us to remove xaw8 from the archive. If
> any of you do specifically need this support, please let us know (M-F-T set
> to debian-x@lists.debian.org) so that we can support you as necessary. If
> you don't need this specific feature though, *please* let us know so we
> are sure we can kill this package without harming anyone.
[...]
> teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
>    tetex-bin

Great news, it makes backporting easier.  We'll drop the build-dep on xaw8.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)