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Bug#873764: Please remove xmkmf and imake from xutils-dev



Package: xutils-dev
Version: 1:7.7+5
Severity: wishlist

The xutils-dev package ships imake and xmkmf tools, which are long
considered obsolete and not used by xorg itself for building.  They are also
not cross-build-friendly, which makes the Multi-Arch: foreign field on
xutils-dev technically a lie.

We should encourage the remaining consumers of these tools to migrate to
something that isn't 20 years obsolete, and then drop them from the package.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org

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