Hi, Drew Parsons wrote:
This has the potential to impact on any third party packages which use libxaw6. We don't believe this should annul the package's removal however, because
a) these packages should be rebuilt against libxaw7 anyway, and
The problem with third-party packages is that it's usually impossible to rebuild them (i.e. commercial software), and in the libxaw case, a lot of people use libxaw 6 because the ABI has been stable for a long time (I remember RedHat shipping their own incompatible version of Xaw some time ago).
b) libxaw6 can still be taken from etch if really needed.
Which would also have the security issue? Simon